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Acknowledgments
BioCaster is supported by grant-in-aid monies from the Japan Science and
Technology (JST) Corporation's PRESTO program. Funding for the survey
of systems was from a Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare
(MHLW) grant-in-aid. The authors would like to express their gratitude
to the system owners who participated in the MHLW survey: Dr. Noele
Nelson (Project Argus, Georgetown University), Dr. Abla Mawudeku
(GPHIN, PHAC), Dr. John Brownstein (HealthMap at MIT-Harvard),
Dr. Ralf Steinberger (MedISys, JRC), and Dr. Roman Yangarber (PULS,
University of Helsinki) as well as BioCaster partners for their support: Dr.
Asanee Kawtrakul (Kasetsart University), Dr. Koichi Takeuchi (Okayama
University), Dr. Kiyosu Taniguchi (National Institute of Infectious Diseases),
Dr. Yoshio Tateno (the National Institute of Genetics), and Dr. Dinh Dien
(Vietnam National University).
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