Gene sequences sampled at different points in time can be used to infer molecular phylogenies
on a natural timescale of months or years, provided that the sequences in question …

The 2013–2016 West African epidemic caused by the Ebola virus was of unprecedented
magnitude, duration and impact. Here we reconstruct the dispersal, proliferation and decline of …

10.7554/eLife.31257.001 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a
zoonotic virus from camels causing significant mortality and morbidity in humans in the …

The magnitude of the 2013–2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic enabled an
unprecedented number of viral mutations to occur over successive human-to-human transmission …

The study aims to describe patients hospitalized for severe acute respiratory illness (SARI)
due to COVID-19 (SARI-COVID) in Brazil according to demographic characteristics and …

Background Mass vaccination campaigns started in Brazil on January/2021 with CoronaVac
followed by ChAdOx1 nCov-19, and BNT162b2 mRNA vaccines. Target populations initially …

The power prior is a popular tool for constructing informative prior distributions based on
historical data. The method consists of raising the likelihood to a discounting factor in order to …

Coalescent theory combined with statistical modeling allows us to estimate effective population
size fluctuations from molecular sequences of individuals sampled from a population of …

Background Simulated nucleotide or amino acid sequences are frequently used to assess
the performance of phylogenetic reconstruction methods. BEAST, a Bayesian statistical …

Urban mobility data are important to areas ranging from traffic engineering to the analysis of
outbreaks and disasters. In this paper, we study mobility data from a major Brazilian city from …