Phylogenetic Tools: Software Quality Tests Yield Best Practices
Life science research increasingly runs on software. A good fraction, perhaps even most of it, is made by academics, for academics: …
No. 30 | 03-2018
News about the next HITS “Journalists in Residence”, venia legendi for HITSter Dr. Rüdiger Pakmor, a simulation showing how black …
EuroNeurotrophin project starts
14 Early Stage Researchers to be trained in a European training network for the discovery of small molecule neurotrophin mimetics as candidate …
Visitor: Benoit Coté
From February 12 to February 23, 2018, Dr. Benoit Coté from from the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences …
SS 2018: Machine learning for molecular world
by Frauke Gräter and Rebecca Wade Over the last decade machine learning revolutionized computer vision and language processing. This progress …
CBI Junior Group: Mission Accomplished
HITS Junior Group “Computational Biology” is bringing its work to a close with two publications in “Nature.” According to Group Leader …
Welcome Jakub!
We welcome Jakub Fišák as a guest student in the PSO group. Jakub is a PhD student at Masaryk University (…
PSO group hosts HJAC colloquium speaker Frans Pretorius
On January 30, 2018, the PSO group hosted Professor Frans Pretorius from Princeton University. Frans works on general relativity with a …
Better Weather Forecasts for Africa: Development Assistance 2.0
Precipitation forecasts are very useful for agricultural areas such as the Sahel. However, while there are reliable models and measurements for …
Vorlesung: Python programming for scientists
Heidelberg University, Winter Semester 2017/2018, Lecturer: Dr. Markus Kromer