comomodels swMATH ID: 42919 Software Authors: van der Vegt, Solveig A.; Dai, Liangti; Bouros, Ioana; Farm, Hui Jia; Creswell, Richard; Dimdore-Miles, Oscar; Cazimoglu, Idil; Bajaj, Sumali; Hopkins, Lyle; Seiferth, David; Cooper, Fergus; Lei, Chon Lok; Gavaghan, David; Lambert, Ben Description: Learning transmission dynamics modelling of COVID-19 using comomodels. The COVID-19 epidemic continues to rage in many parts of the world. In the UK alone, an array of mathematical models have played a prominent role in guiding policymaking. Whilst considerable pedagogical material exists for understanding the basics of transmission dynamics modelling, there is a substantial gap between the relatively simple models used for exposition of the theory and those used in practice to model the transmission dynamics of COVID-19. Understanding these models requires considerable prerequisite knowledge and presents challenges to those new to the field of epidemiological modelling. In this paper, we introduce an open-source extsf{R} package, comomodels, which can be used to understand the complexities of modelling the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 through a series of differential equation models. Alongside the base package, we describe a host of learning resources, including detailed tutorials and an interactive web-based interface allowing dynamic investigation of the model properties. We then use comomodels to illustrate three key lessons in the transmission of COVID-19 within extsf{R} Markdown vignettes. Homepage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9077823/ Source Code: https://github.com/Como-DTC-Collaboration/como-models Dependencies: R Keywords: epidemiology; COVID-19; population dynamics; pedagogy; compartmental models; infectious disease modelling Related Software: Plotly; R Markdown; ggplot2; R Cited in: 1 Publication Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year Learning transmission dynamics modelling of COVID-19 using comomodels. Zbl 1492.92120van der Vegt, Solveig A.; Dai, Liangti; Bouros, Ioana; Farm, Hui Jia; Creswell, Richard; Dimdore-Miles, Oscar; Cazimoglu, Idil; Bajaj, Sumali; Hopkins, Lyle; Seiferth, David; Cooper, Fergus; Lei, Chon Lok; Gavaghan, David; Lambert, Ben 2022 all top 5 Cited by 14 Authors 1 Bajaj, Sumali 1 Bouros, Ioana 1 Cazimoglu, Idil 1 Cooper, Fergus R. 1 Creswell, Richard 1 Dai, Liangti 1 Dimdore-Miles, Oscar 1 Farm, Hui Jia 1 Gavaghan, David J. 1 Hopkins, Lyle 1 Lambert, Ben 1 Lei, Chon Lok 1 Seiferth, David 1 van der Vegt, Solveig A. Cited in 1 Serial 1 Mathematical Biosciences Cited in 1 Field 1 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) Citations by Year