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. 2025:2927:173-193.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4546-8_10.

Scalable Epidemic Simulation Using FAVITES-Lite

Niema Moshiri  1
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Scalable Epidemic Simulation Using FAVITES-Lite

Niema Moshiri. Methods Mol Biol. 2025.
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Abstract

The ability to simulate social contact networks, transmission networks, pathogen phylogenies, and pathogen genome sequences that capture a wide range of scenarios can enhance molecular epidemiology. However, the utility of such simulations depends entirely on their ability to capture important properties of the real-world epidemics they are used to study, which in turn depends on the appropriateness of the model assumptions behind the simulations. In this chapter, I introduce the FAVITES-Lite framework and discuss how one can use it to design and execute realistic epidemic simulations that appropriately model real-world epidemics of interest.

Keywords: Contact network; Epidemiology; Genome sequences; Phylogeny; Simulation; Transmission network; Virus.

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