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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.

Phylogenetic Tools: Software Quality Tests Yield Best Practices

1. March 2018

Life science research increasingly runs on software. A good fraction, perhaps even most of it, is made by academics, for academics: …

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No. 30 | 03-2018

1. March 2018

News about the next HITS “Journalists in Residence”, venia legendi for HITSter Dr. Rüdiger Pakmor, a simulation showing how black …

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EuroNeurotrophin project starts

1. March 2018

14 Early Stage Researchers to be trained in a European training network for the discovery of small molecule neurotrophin mimetics as candidate …

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Visitor: Benoit Coté

23. February 2018

From February  12 to February 23, 2018, Dr. Benoit Coté from from the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences …

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Job

SS 2018: Machine learning for molecular world

14. February 2018

by Frauke Gräter and Rebecca Wade Over the last decade machine learning revolutionized computer vision and language processing. This progress …

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Die Computational Biology (CBI) Gruppe, 2013-2018 (v.l.n.r.): Martin Pippel, Siegfried Schloissnig, Philipp Kämpfer, Sean Powell, Philipp Bongartz.

CBI Junior Group: Mission Accomplished

13. February 2018

HITS Junior Group “Computational Biology” is bringing its work to a close with two publications in “Nature.” According to Group Leader …

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Welcome Jakub!

12. February 2018

We welcome Jakub Fišák as a guest student in the PSO group. Jakub is a PhD student at Masaryk  University (…

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PSO group hosts HJAC colloquium speaker Frans Pretorius

9. February 2018

On January 30, 2018, the PSO group hosted Professor Frans Pretorius from Princeton University.  Frans works on general relativity with a …

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Better Weather Forecasts for Africa: Development Assistance 2.0

7. February 2018

Precipitation forecasts are very useful for agricultural areas such as the Sahel. However, while there are reliable models and measurements for …

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Job

Vorlesung: Python programming for scientists

1. February 2018

Heidelberg University, Winter Semester 2017/2018, Lecturer: Dr. Markus Kromer

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