Leveraging Public Information about Pathogens for Disease Outbreak Investigations
Abstract
With recent technological advances in DNA sequencing and access to information via internet databases, the amount of information about pathogen strains in the public domain is growing rapidly. This information can be leveraged to help identify the origins of pathogens that cause disease outbreaks. This report describes potential uses for public data in outbreak investigations, key data types, the formats and locations of pathogen data in public sources, and tools MITRE is designing for assembling and integrating information during disease outbreak investigations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- AD1108724
Entities
People
- Matthew Peterson
- Tonia Korves
- Wenling Change
Organizations
- MITRE Corporation