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What´s new at HITS? On this page you can find the latest news from and about HITS, including the latest scientific discoveries, personal achievements by our researchers or general changes at HITS.

“Test of Time Award” for HITS researcher

13. September 2021

Alexandros Stamatakis, group leader at HITS and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has received the “Test of Time …

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NCT-Run 2021: Team “The HITSters” runs beyond the limits

3. September 2021

The HITS running team “The HITSters” participated for the fourth time in the NCT charity run in Heidelberg. On 2-4 July 2021, …

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Biomedisa – an open-source online platform for biomedical image segmentation

2. September 2021

In many scientific disciplines, the key to extracting meaningful information from large three-dimensional images, obtained from X-ray tomography or optical microscopy, …

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Astronomy Award for HITS researcher Fabian Schneider

26. August 2021

Astrophysicist Fabian Schneider, head of the junior group “Stellar Evolution Theory” (SET) at HITS, has received the Ludwig Biermann Award of …

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City Cycling 2021: Mud, sweat and gears

6. August 2021

They did it again – and this time they joined forces with colleagues across the Klaus Tschira Foundation: The HITS cycling team 2021 …

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Build your collagen fibril!

4. August 2021

Obtain your atomistic collagen fibril models with ColBuilder! We have now published a web resource of collagen models for 20 different species …

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Computational Oncology: Exploring the origin of Colon Cancer

22. July 2021

Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and women worldwide. Due to the microscopic size of the …

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FDA – detect and follow force in proteins

5. July 2021

Force distribution analysis (FDA) is a method to detect and follow force and stress propagation in proteins, reminiscent of Finite Element …

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KIMMDY – a hybrid approach for Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation

5. July 2021

The simulation scheme called KIMMDY (Kinetic Monte Carlo / Molecular Dynamics) enables covalent bond breakages in all-atom Molecular …

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“SoftWipe” – open-source tool and benchmark to assess the quality of scientific software

5. July 2021

Digital tools are essential in almost all scientific disciplines. Reliable, carefully developed software is particularly important when large amounts of research …

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