Mosqlimate: a platform to providing automatable access to data and forecasting models for arbovirus disease
Dengue is a climate-sensitive mosquito-borne disease with a complex transmission dynamic. Data related to climate, environmental and sociodemographic characteristics of the target population are important for project scenarios. Different datasets and methodologies have been applied to build complex models for dengue forecast, stressing the need to evaluate these models and their relative accuracy grounded on a reproducible methodology. The goal of this work is to describe and present Mosqlimate, a web-based platform composed by a dashboard, a data store, model and rediction registries and support for a community of practice in arbovirus forecasting. Multiple API endpoints give access to data for development, open registration of predictive models from different approaches and sharing of predictive models for arboviruses incidence, facilitating interaction between modellers and allowing for proper comparison of the performance of different registered models, by means of probabilistic scores. Epidemiological, entomological, climatic and sociodemographic datasets related to arboviruses in Brazil, are freely available for download, alongside full documentation.