Create EMOD simulations

To create simulations using EMOD you must use the emodpy package with idmtools. Included with emodpy is the EMODTask class, inheriting from the ITask abstract class, and used for the running and configuration of EMOD simulations and experiments.

For more information about the architecture of job (simulation/experiment) creation and how EMOD leverages idmtools plugin architecture, see Architecture and packages reference.

The following Python excerpt shows an example of using EMODTask class and from_default method to create a task object using default config, campaign, and demographic values from EMODSir class and to use the Eradication.exe from local directory:

task = EMODTask.from_default(default=EMODSir(), eradication_path=os.path.join(BIN_PATH, "Eradication"))

Another option, instead of using from_default, is to use the from_files method:

task = EMODTask.from_files(config_path=os.path.join(INPUT_PATH, "config.json"),
                           campaign_path=os.path.join(INPUT_PATH, "campaign.json"),
                           demographics_paths=os.path.join(INPUT_PATH, "demographics.json"),
                           eradication_path=eradication_path)

For complete examples of the above see the following Python scripts:

• (from_default) emodpy.examples.create_sims_from_default_run_analyzer

• (from_files) emodpy.examples.create_sims_eradication_from_github_url