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Atyimo - Record Linkage Application for Heterogeneous Platforms

Description

AtyImo implements a mixture of deterministic and probabilistic routines for data linkage. initially developed in 2013 to serve as a linkage tool supporting a joint Brazil–U.K. project aiming at building a large population-based cohort with data from more than 100 million participants and producing disease-specific data to facilitate diverse epidemiological research studies.

Requirements:

Java 8+, Spark 2.1.x, gcc

Setup steps:

  1. Edit the config.py file
  2. edit the line "export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/spark/bin" using the location of Apache Spark's installation
  3. Use the 'run_all.sh' script to execute the atyimo.

Authors

Robespierre Pita and Clicia Pinto and Marcos Barreto and Spiros Denaxas

  1. FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA (UFBA), ATYIMOLAB (www.atyimolab.ufba.br)
  2. University College London, Denaxas Lab (www.denaxaslab.org)

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