Apollo: giving application developers a single point of access to public health models using structured vocabularies and Web services

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2013 Nov 16:2013:1415-24. eCollection 2013.

Abstract

This paper describes the Apollo Web Services and Apollo-SV, its related ontology. The Apollo Web Services give an end-user application a single point of access to multiple epidemic simulators. An end user can specify an analytic problem-which we define as a configuration and a query of results-exactly once and submit it to multiple epidemic simulators. The end user represents the analytic problem using a standard syntax and vocabulary, not the native languages of the simulators. We have demonstrated the feasibility of this design by implementing a set of Apollo services that provide access to two epidemic simulators and two visualizer services.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Biological Ontologies*
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging*
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Simulation*
  • Epidemics*
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Public Health Informatics
  • Software*