dc.contributor.author | Lourenҫo, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Tennant, W | |
dc.contributor.author | Faria, NR | |
dc.contributor.author | Walker, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Gupta, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Recker, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-07T09:38:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-11-05 | |
dc.description.abstract | The dengue virus is now the most widespread arbovirus affecting human populations, causing significant economic and social impact in South America and South-East Asia. Increasing urbanization and globalization, coupled with insufficient resources for control, misguided policies or lack of political will, and expansion of its mosquito vectors are some of the reasons why interventions have so far failed to curb this major public health problem. Computational approaches have elucidated on dengue's population dynamics with the aim to provide not only a better understanding of the evolution and epidemiology of the virus but also robust intervention strategies. It is clear, however, that these have been insufficient to address key aspects of dengue's biology, many of which will play a crucial role for the success of future control programmes, including vaccination. Within a multiscale perspective on this biological system, with the aim of linking evolutionary, ecological and epidemiological thinking, as well as to expand on classic modelling assumptions, we here propose, discuss and exemplify a few major computational avenues—real-time computational analysis of genetic data, phylodynamic modelling frameworks, within-host model frameworks and GPU-accelerated computing. We argue that these emerging approaches should offer valuable research opportunities over the coming years, as previously applied and demonstrated in the context of other pathogens. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | JL, AW and SG received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement no. 268904 - DIVERSITY. MR was supported by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. NRF by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (grant number 204311/Z/16/Z). WT has received funding from a doctoral scholarship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Doctoral Training Partnership. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/eva.12554 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30178 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2017 The Authors. Evolutionary Applications published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | computation | en_GB |
dc.subject | dengue | en_GB |
dc.subject | epidemiology | en_GB |
dc.subject | evolution | en_GB |
dc.subject | models | en_GB |
dc.title | Challenges in dengue research: A computational perspective | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-11-07T09:38:35Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1752-4571 | |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from Wiley via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Evolutionary Applications | en_GB |