> Is NetEpi based on EpiInfo or something growing out of that?? I used EpiInfo it
> some years ago and can remember writing to the CDC to create a linux version :-)
Not based on Epi-Info but inspired by it - see http://www.netepi.info -
that page is rather out of date - we'll update it in the near future -
but the motivation behind the projects hasn't changed.
As far as I know CDC are not contemplating a version of Epi-Info for
non-MS-Windows platforms. There was an attempt about 5 or 6 years ago to
convert the old Epi-Info version 6 for MS-DOS to a Linux terminal mode
programme, but I understand that not all of the necessary source code
could be obtained from CDC under a Freedom of Information request, and
the project foundered.
I think that Jens Lauritsen hopes to create a Linux GUI version of
EpiData, which currently only runs on MS-Windows, at some stage - see
http://www.epidata.dk/ However EpiData is not open source, although Jens
says that it may become open source at some stage in the future.
Also, Andy Dean, one of the original authors of Epi-info, is now one of
the people behind the open source OpenEpi project - which provides
epidemiological calculators in pure _javascript_ - see http://www.openepi.com
Finally, we plan to create versions of both NetEpi Case Manager and
NetEpi Analysis which can run on MS-Windows machines as well as, as they
do at at present, on Linux, Unix and Mac OS X. The port to MS-Windows
should be fairly trivial, since the applications use Web browser
interfaces and the underlying infrastructure of Python and PostgreSQL
are both cross-platform, but in practice it is never quite that simple
and we want to complete Version 1.0 of each app first.
Tim C
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