
Mapping the uncertainty: COVID-19 forecasts
Researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a web platform …

Again: “Highly Cited Researcher“ at HITS
For five years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been named one of …

Making sense of what you see in biomedical images
Sometimes an image is just an image. Sometimes it gives those who can read it correctly a deeper insight into what …

New tools for computing protein-ligand dissociation rates and exploring dissociation mechanisms
The length of time that a drug molecule spends bound to its protein target – its residence time – is an important determinant …

Why scientists should be on twitter
Twitter has been around since 2006 and currently has around 330 million active users (as of October 2020) making it one of the most …

Paper accepted at LAW 2020
The paper “pyMMAX2: Deep Access to MMAX2 Projects from Python” by Mark-Christoph Müller has been accepted as a poster for …

Paper accepted at SDP Workshop
The paper “Reconstructing Manual Information Extraction with DB-to-Document Backprojection: Experiments in the Life Science Domain” by Mark-Christoph Müller, Sucheta Ghosh, …

Women in academia during the COVID-19 pandemic
Last month, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) organized a virtual conference on “The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on women …

Anna Wienhard appointed new Scientific Chairperson of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
The mathematician Anna Wienhard, HITS group leader and professor at Heidelberg University, will be the new Scientific Chairperson of the Heidelberg …

The calculated tumor – how algorithms support the search for vaccines against cancer
Malignant tumors are caused by genetic mutations. In so-called microsatellite unstable (MSI) tumors, an important repair system of the cell has …