Bovine tuberculosis model for England and Wales (BoTMEW) including model description.

This model is a research tool, which has been released to allow confirmation of model outputs referred to by a paper published in BMC Veterinary Research https://rdcu.be/5NcV. Outputs are only suitable for evaluating the behaviour of the model. The model is not recommended for any other use. Although the overall distribution of cattle herds represents cattle herds in England and Wales during 2008-2010, all individual herd identities are fictional.

This dataset has been made available under an Open Government License 3.0. The model uses open access code libraries under licenses that are provided in the file "license.txt".

This is the bovine tuberculosis model for England and Wales (BoTMEW), including a model description, and a zip file to download, including executable, parameter and set up files for baseline simulations 2008 - 2022.

The model simulates bovine tuberculosis throughout England and Wales at the resolution of individual farms and infected cattle. However, this version is anonymized below county level, so it can only generate outputs at county resolution.

The model set up includes a complete anonymized listing of cattle movements to match the model for 2008 - 2010.

Full details of the model specification and set up are presented in the document "ModelDescriptionv5.6.pdf", in the most recent version of this upload.

The zip includes actual outputs from 10 replicate simulations of the baseline model setup. It also includes a .ods workbook at its top level, which demonstrates how model fit in 2010 was calculated using those outputs.