bdext

The bdext package provides scripts to simulate transmission trees, train Deep-Learning-based estimators, and estimate epidemiological parameters with BD(EI)(SS)(CT) models from dated phylogenetic trees.

BDEISS-CT model

The Birth-Death (BD) Exposed-Infectious (EI) with SuperSpreading (SS) and Contact-Tracing (CT) model (BDEISS-CT) can be described with the following 8 parameters:

average reproduction number R;
average total infection duration d;
sampling probability ρ;
incubation period d_inc or incubation fraction f_E = d_inc/d;
fraction of superspreaders f_S < 0.5;
super-spreading transmission increase X_S > 1;
contact tracing probability υ;
contact-traced removal speed up X_C > 1.

Setting d_inc=0 (equivalent to f_E=0) removes incubation (EI), setting f_S=0 or X_S=1 removes superspreading (SS), while setting υ=0 or X_C=1 removes contact-tracing (CT).

For identifiability, we require the sampling probability ρ to be given by the user. The other parameters are estimated from a time-scaled phylogenetic tree.

Example data

In the examples below we will use the wave3.days.nwk tree as an example to show how to run the commands. This tree is a time-scaled phylogenetic tree of SARS-CoV-2 sequences sampled in Hong-Kong during the third wave of the pandemic, resolved with contact-tracing data and rescaled to days. It was reconstructed by Xie et al. 2024. The estimated sampling probability for this tree is ρ=0.238.

Installation

There are 3 alternative ways to run bdct on your computer: with apptainer, in Python3, or via command line (requires installation with Python3, potentially using conda).

Installation and use in python3 or command-line (for linux systems, recommended Ubuntu 21 or newer versions)

You could either install python (version 3.10 or higher) system-wide and then install bdext via pip:

sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-distutils
pip3 install bdext

or alternatively, you could install python (version 3.10 or higher) and bdext via conda (make sure that conda is installed first). Here we will create a conda environment called phylodyn:

conda create --name phylodyn python=3.10
conda activate phylodyn
pip install bdext

Basic usage in a command line

If you installed bdext in a conda environment (here named phylodyn), do not forget to first activate it, e.g.

conda activate phylodyn

We will analyse the [wave3.days.nwk][real_data/wave3.days.nwk] tree, using ρ=0.238 (see above for details). For each of the 8 BDEISS-CT nested models, we will assess whether the tree resembles the transmission trees in its training dataset by checking the summary statistics and reporting those with z-score > 5. We will then make estimates with each model.

for model in BD BDEI BDSS BDCT BDEISS BDEICT BDSSCT BDEISSCT
do
    bdeissct_check --nwk wave3.days.nwk --p 0.238 --model_name ${model} --log wave3.days.ss_${model}.tab
    bdeissct_infer --nwk wave3.days.nwk --p 0.238 --model_name ${model} --log wave3.days.est_${model}.tab
done

Help

To see detailed options, run:

bdeissct_check --help
bdeissct_infer --help

Additional commands

There are also commands to simulate trees, encode them into summary statistics and train models available:

bdeissct_simulate --help
bdeissct_encode --help
bdeissct_train --help

To see an example of how to use these commands, see the example/main.py file.

Basic usage in Python

To see an example of how to use bdext in Python, see the example/main.py file.

Run with apptainer

Once apptainer is installed, run the following command (update the version as needed, here v0.1.98 is used as an example):

apptainer run docker://evolbioinfo/bdext:v0.1.98

This will launch a terminal session within the container, in which you can run bdext commands following the instructions for the command line ("Basic usage in a command line") above.

Training the models from scratch

The simulations_bdeissct in folder contains the explanations and command-line pipelines for generation of training and test datasets, and deep-learning-based BD(EI)(SS)(-CT) model training.

The example folder contains the explanations and a python file with code needed for generation of training and test datasets, and deep-learning-based BD(EI)(SS)(-CT) model training directly in python.

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