Supervisors: Ferdous Nasri, Fabio Miranda, Dr. Athar Khodabakhsh, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Renard

Link: Bachelor Projects IT-Systems Engineering

This bachelor project aims to design and prototype a platform for an outbreak map with a focus on mutation data in Germany. The project’s underlying idea is to identify the origin of different mutations in Germany and also visualize their spreading patterns in order to better model and hinder the extensive spread of other mutations in the future. The data resources include genomic mutations (from RKI [1], as presented in covradar [2]) and mobility patterns in Germany and also from other countries to Germany. By monitoring the mobility data from phones, the movement of the population can be measured to correlate events and make predictions on behavioral changes and early detection of possible outbreaks.

Plots showing mutation frequency and mobility change in different locations in February 2021

The requirements listed below are to be implemented in the prototype:

• Prototype design of a data integration architecture;
• Software implementation using Agile development methodology;
• Analysis of interoperability among data using Statistical and Machine Learning methods for the spread of SARS-CoV-2 mutations;
• Visualization of the spread of mutations.

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The bachelor project is organised by the Data Analytics and Computational Statistics chair. The supervisors are listed below. Link to original project description (in German).

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