CONNECT
Our data analytics technologies and platform are designed to CONNECT multiple pathogen surveillance datapoints for a comprehensive picture of how diseases are spreading through a community, enabling real-time pathogen surveillance in an actionable form
Sentinel’s technologies are designed to plug into existing data streams, incorporating genomic data with existing public health data to inform more detailed, user-friendly analytics and visualizations about disease trends. This allows public health officials to overcome challenges, leapfrog current disease surveillance activities, and quickly interpret their own data.
To maximize the impact of the data that is collected and ensure the information is actionable, Sentinel provides real-time surveillance data in an actionable form, preparing West African public health officials, institutions, and practitioners with the tools needed to intervene quickly and precisely to avert potential disease outbreaks in an easy-to-use mobile format.
Our Tools
Lookout
Lookout
A comprehensive picture of disease spread is crucial to preventing, and responding to outbreaks
To achieve this goal, data from multiple sources need to be integrated, analyzed, and communicated. Lookout, designed and supported by Fathom Information Design, integrates epidemiological, patient, public health, and genomic data into an analytical platform, connecting frontline responders and public health officials with needed pathogen surveillance data. Lookout provides real-time surveillance data in easily digestible visualizations and key analytics for public health officers to take immediate.
Delphy
Delphy
A computational tool for outbreak reconstruction
Delphy is a novel tool for phylogenetic analysis that is user-friendly and runs 1,000x faster than current methods. This anlysis help us understand how a pathogen is changing and evolving. The objective of Delphy is to easily run complicated sequencing data and quickly understand key genomic variables of the samples, including diversity, variants, and genomic evolution. Delphy is an order of magnitude faster than the current gold standard for such analyses and is currently available for research use.
Terra
Terra
Supporting pathogen genomics research and pathogen surveillance
The Terra Data Platform enables collaborative genome science through a federated platform that connects users to each other and to the datasets and analysis tools they need. Its is an open, cloud-based platform funded by DSI-Africa that supports genomic sequencing data analysis and allows for the creation of flexible data tables and the ability to easily combine metadata and genomic data files, providing intuitive functionality enabling users to manage and analyze genomic data.
Our Approach
Data Capture
Supporting disease surveillance data collection with REDCap, an industry standard for research data collection. This platform enables our teams to collect needed data, assess its quality, and integrate these data points into a single data ecosystem.
Data Connectivity
Improving compatibility and seamless integration of data across platforms with APIs. This enables multiple forms and multiple sources of data to flow into our data analytics platform.
Data Analytics
To enable seamless exchange of vital pathogen information, the Sentinel team connects public health officials, clinicians, and researchers by building and deploying cloud-based tools for collecting, sharing, analyzing, and visualizing data.
