All HIFIS Software Spotlights
The Helmholtz Software Spotlights present outstanding software products that are developed and maintained in Helmholtz research centres. We want to raise awareness for the general importance of research software in academia, and present software that appeals equally to research, citizens, industry and politics.
CrystFEL
CrystFEL is a suite of programs to process data from "serial crystallography" experiments.
- crystallography
- Matter
- structural biology
- + 2
- C
- Julia
- Python
- + 2
NEST
NEST is a simulator for spiking neuronal networks. A well tested and efficient tool, NEST works on your laptop and also on the world’s largest supercomputers to study behaviour of large networks of neurons.
- Computational neuroscience
- exascale
- Modeling
- + 3
- C++
- Python
- CMake
- + 3
Multiphase Code Repository by HZDR for OpenFOAM Foundation Software
The Multiphase Code Repository by HZDR provides research code based on OpenFOAM Foundation Software for simulating multiphase flows. Its focus is MultiMorph, an morphology-adaptive Euler-Euler model, supported by validation cases and workflows for robust industrial applications.
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Energy
- Euler-Euler method
- + 5
- C++
- Shell
- Lex
- + 2
FormatFuzzer
FormatFuzzer is a framework for high-efficiency, high-quality generation and parsing of binary inputs.
- Automated Test Generation
- Fuzzing
- Information
- + 3
- Python
- C++
- Shell
- + 3
MassBank
MassBank is an open source mass spectral library for the identification of small chemical molecules of metabolomics, exposomics and environmental relevance.
- database
- Earth & Environment
- mass spectrometry
FishInspector
The software FishInspector provides automatic feature detections in images of zebrafish embryos (body size, eye size, pigmentation). It is Matlab-based and provided as a Windows executable (no matlab installation needed).
- Earth & Environment
- image feature detection
- pattern recognition
- + 1
- MATLAB
- HTML
GOLEM
GOLEM is a modelling platform for thermal-hydraulic-mechanical and non-reactive chemical processes in fractured and faulted porous media, based on the MOOSE framework
- Earth & Environment
- Multiphysics of porous fractured rocks
- reservoir behaviour and induced seismicity
- + 1
- C++
- SWIG
- Assembly
- + 5
LYNX
LYNX (Lithosphere dYnamics Numerical toolboX) is a novel numerical simulator for modelling thermo-poromechanical coupled processes driving the deformation dynamics of the lithosphere.
- damage rheology and porosity feedback
- Earth & Environment
- Explicit visco-elasto-plastic rheology
- + 1
- C++
- Assembly
- Makefile
- + 4
MeshIt
The tool MeshIT generates quality tetrahedral meshes based on structural geological information. It has been developed at the GFZ Potsdam and some extensions were later added by PERFACCT. All procedures are fully automatized and require at least scattered data points as input.
- 3D meshing
- Delaunay tetrahedralization
- Delaunay triangulation
- + 2
- C++
- C
- QMake
Palladio
Palladio is a software architecture simulation approach which analyses software at the model level for performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, reliability threats, and allows for subsequent optimisation.
- Component-Based Software Engineering
- Information
- Modeling
- + 3
RAFCON
RAFCON uses hierarchical state machines, featuring concurrent state execution, to represent robot programs. It ships with a graphical user interface supporting the creation of state machines and contains IDE like debugging mechanisms.
- Aeronautics, Space and Transport
- collaboration
- robotics
- + 2
- Python
- SCSS
- Shell
- + 1
Citation File Format
The Citation File Format (CFF) project provides a format and schema for plain text CITATION.cff files with human- and machine-readable citation information for software (and datasets). Developers/RSEs can include them in their repositories to let others know how to correctly cite their software.
- Citation File Format
- Information
- metadata
- + 2
- Python