# Data-related and Software Projects Data Sharing and Open Source Software Help Combat Covid-19: “The way researchers connected those dots highlights the role of open science projects in tracking the evolution of Covid-19 and other diseases”. (source: [wired.com](https://www.wired.com/story/data-sharing-open-source-software-combat-covid-19/ ) 13/03/2020) Using open source in the fight against COVID-19: “When COVID-19 started its march around the world, open source stepped up to try to help stop it. That includes using open data to create tracking dashboards and apps, designing ventilators, and developing protective gear”. (source: [opensource.com](https://opensource.com/article/20/3/news-march-28) 20/03/2020) Unprecedented data sharing sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to faster-than-ever outbreak research (source: [Horizon - The EU Research and Innovation Magazine](https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/covid-19-how-unprecedented-data-sharing-has-led-faster-ever-outbreak-research.html) 25/03/2020) ## List of known projects * [Folding@home](https://foldingathome.org/) - is an open source distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases. * [Nextstrain](https://nextstrain.org/ ) - is an open source project to harness the scientific and public health potential of pathogen genome data. It provides a continually-updated view of publicly available data alongside analytic and visualization tools for use by the community. The projects declared goal is to aid epidemiological understanding and improve outbreak response. * [SafeTrace](https://github.com/enigmampc/SafeTrace) - is a open source privacy preserving voluntary COVID-19 self-reporting platform for contact tracing. The idea behin it is that the user shares his/her (encrypted) location history and test status and gets a notification if s/he has been in proximity to higher risk locations. * [CovidNet ](https://github.com/lindawangg/COVID-Net)- is a deep convolutional neural network design tailored for the detection of COVID-19 cases from chest radiography images that is open source and available to the general public. The chest radiography dataset leveraged to train COVID-Net (COVIDx) is also accessible via two open access data repositories. * [COVID-OpenConnect](https://github.com/pardhak25/COVID-OpenConnect) - bluetooth based infection contact tracking app * [World Health Organization Pandemic App ](https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/app)- official WHO App to help contain and mitigate COVID-19. The app should support the WHO efforts and be available on a worldwide basis, with information tailored to the user’s location, culture and language. The app should also be sensitive to national needs and respect privacy. * [PENN Medicine CHIME](https://penn-chime.phl.io/) - COVID-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics * [Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP-3T)](https://github.com/DP-3T/documents) - proposing a secure and privacy-preserving decentralized privacy-preserving proximity tracing system providing a technological foundation to help slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus * [Epidemic Models](https://github.com/Mythobeast/epidemicmodels) - model to estimate hospital bed requirements * [Covid-19-Classifier (Deep Insights/LifeTec)](https://labs.deep-insights.ai/) - deep learning based image classifier which is able to categorize CT Scans as either COVID-19, pathological (which groups together MERS, pneumonia and other diseases), or as normal (non-pathological) lungs scans * [GISAID](https://www.gisaid.org/) - global nitiative on sharing viral genome sequence data * [Boston Dynamics ](https://github.com/boston-dynamics/bosdyn-hospital-bot )- open source healthcare robotics toolkit: payload, hardware, and software able to be deployed on other mobile robotic platforms with APIs and capacity for custom payloads * [LMU Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine](https://github.com/Public-Health-Informatics-Munich/covid19-teststation-termine) - Covid19 Teststation appointments booking app * [OpenLMIS ](https://github.com/OpenLMIS)- open-source and adjustable logistics management information system helping to enhance health supply-chains, the inventory of medical resources to provide a clear picture of the available medical supplies, including test kits, and PPEs (particular solution focus on low- and middle-income countries) * [OpenELIS](https://github.com/openelisglobal) - open-cource initiative to provide laboratory information systems for resource-constrained international clinical and reference laboratorie ## Additional Ressources * [Ovio Covid19 Initiative ](https://explore.ovio.org/covid-19/)- Overview open source software and data-related initiatives * [Coronavirus Research Landscape ](https://www.researchgate.net/project/Coronavirus-Research-Landscape)- create and share a collection of visualizations of the research landscape relevant to coronavirus. * [TowardsDataScience ](https://towardsdatascience.com/top-5-r-resources-on-covid-19-coronavirus-1d4c8df6d85f)- Top 35 R resources on Novel COVID-19 Coronavirus ## News * [Opensource.com](https://opensource.com/article/20/3/open-source-software-covid19) - How open source software is fighting COVID-19 (27/03/2020) * [University of Waterloo](https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/researchers-use-open-source-software-improve-covid-19)- Researchers use open-source software to improve COVID-19 screening with AI (24/03/2020) * [Suse.com](https://www.suse.com/c/suses-commitment-to-combat-covid-19/)- SUSE offers free operating system and container technologies to medical device manufacturers fighting COVID-19 (25/03/2020) * [Futurism ](https://)- This MIT and Harvard-Built app could slow the spread of coronavirus (18/03/2020) * [MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615399/coronavirus-neural-network-can-help-spot-covid-19-in-chest-x-ray-pneumonia/ ) - A neural network can help spot Covid-19 in chest x-rays (24/03/2020) * [Computer-weekly.com](https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252480501/Singapore-government-to-open-source-contact-tracing-protocol) - Singapore government to open source contact-tracing protocol (24/03/2020) * [Towards Data Science](https://towardsdatascience.com/covid-19-trends-corona-virus-in-numbers-8725c25b636d) - An open-source code to analyze COVID-19 trends (05/04/2020) * [Open Source Lab ](https://opensourcelab.dfki.de/pepp-pt-open-data-helps-to-stop-corona/)- "PEPP-PT – Open Data helps to stop Corona" (06/04/2020)