Kendrick

DSL and Simulation Plarform for Epidemiology Modeling
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Kendrick provides an embedded Domain-Specific Language and a Simulation Plaform for mathematical epidemiology modeling. It helps epidemiologists craft custom analyses cheaply. It's based on Pharo and it's open source under MIT licence. Classes of epidemic model include deterministic compartmental models, stochastic individual contact models, and individual-based network models.

Kendrick is based extensively on several Pharo ecosystem tools including PetitParser and Roassal visualization engine.

Citation

If you are using Kendrick for research, please cite our work as:

Mai Anh BUI T., Nick Papoulias, Serge Stinckwich, Mikal Ziane & Benjamin Roche (2019), The Kendrick modelling platform: language abstractions and tools for epidemiology, BMC Bioinformatics volume 20, Article number: 312 URL: https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-019-2843-0

Documentation

You will find documentation about Kendrick DSL in the wiki : https://github.com/UNU-Macau/kendrick/wiki

Kendrick is also described in a chapter of the Agile Visualization book.

How to install the development version of Kendrick from github

• Download Pharo 9.0 VM depending of your platform: http://pharo.org/download
• Load Kendrick: Open Pharo 9.0 image then right-click anywhere to open the main menu. Choose Playground to execute script. Paste the script below in Playground, select all then right-click and choose Do it to execute this.
• You need first to update the Iceberg version in your image. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

Metacello new
        repository: 'github://UNU-Macau/kendrick';
        baseline: 'Kendrick';
        onWarningLog ;
        load

If you have errors due low bandwidth or github access, use the following script instead:

| count |
count := 1.
Transcript open.
[ true ] whileTrue: [ [
		^ Metacello new
        repository: 'github://UNU-Macau/kendrick';
        baseline: 'Kendrick';
		  onConflictUseLoaded;
        onWarningLog ;
        load.
	]
	on: IceGenericError "Failed to connect to github.com: Interrupted system call"
	do: [ : ex |
		Notification signal:
	        	String cr ,
			ex description,
			String cr ,
			'RETRYING ',
			count asString.
		(Delay forSeconds: 2) wait.
		ex retry
	].
	count := count + 1 ]

How to invoke Kendrick from the command-line

DSL Editor

After compiling from source or downloading the pre-compiled versions of Kendrick, you can run the dedicated Kendrick editor (using the Kendrick DSL), by invoking:

./KendrickUI

Development Environmement

To run Kendrick with the full Pharo environment (allowing to use both the DSL and the Pharo API of Kendrick), you can invoke:

./KendrickDevUI

Using External Tools

Finally, to use Kendrick with an editor of your choice, you only need to navigate in the Sources directory of your installation, edit / add files for your project and invoke the non-interactive kendric executable as follows (example for simulating and visualizing the results described in Influenza1Viz.kendrick):

./Kendrick Sources/Projects/Infuenza/Visualization/Influenza1Viz.kendrick

In the above example you can then find the results in:

Sources/Projects/Infuenza/Output/Influenza1Viz.png