I recently read a really cool paper by @ada_w_yan @SRileyIDD et al. describing a model of influenza viral dynamics 1/n https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436520300311
Quantifying mechanistic traits of influenza viral dynamics using in vitro data

When analysing in vitro data, growth kinetics of influenza virus strains are often compared by computing their growth rates, which are sometimes used …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436520300311
As good scientists/modellers, they made their code available (that in itself deserves recognition 👏). Their repository mentioned they used an #rstats package called Odin, by @rgfitzjohn, which turns R ODE models into C, for faster computation https://github.com/mrc-ide/odin  2/n
mrc-ide/odin

ᚩ A DSL for describing and solving differential equations in R - mrc-ide/odin

https://github.com/mrc-ide/odin
I had a go at it today: in a couple of hours it was up and running for my model, and now my MCMC is 50x faster!!! 🤩 So a massive thank you to those mentioned for your reproducible, open-sciences practices and for this awesome package. You made a PhD student really happy 🥳 3/3
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