Helmholtz Software Spotlights

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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.

Please note that this list will not be extended any further. In early 2023, we set up the Helmholtz Research Software Directory to accommodate the Software Spotlights in the near future, aiming to provide more features and a better user experience.

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. The project also provides tooling for working with CFF files.

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Chemotion ELN

Chemotion ELN is an Open Source electronic lab notebook (ELN) for scientists working in chemistry and colleagues from neighboring disciplines, developed and updated at KIT. The web-based application allows the acquisition, management, storage, processing, and sharing of research data.

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Digital Earth Viewer

The Digital Earth Viewer is a tool for the visualisation and exploration of geospatial data in true 3D over time. It runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux and only requires a modern webbrowser to use. Common file formats such as CSV, netCDF, GeoTIFF and many more are natively supported.

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EnPT

The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) is a German hyperspectral satellite mission that aims at monitoring and characterising Earth’s environment on a global scale. EnMAP measures and models key dynamic processes of Earth’s ecosystems by extracting geochemical, biochemical and biophysical parameters that provide information on the status and evolution of various terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

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FairMQ

FairMQ is designed to help implement large-scale data processing workflows needed in next-generation particle physics experiments.

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FESOM

FESOM (Finite-Element/volumE Sea ice-Ocean Model) is a multi-resolution sea ice-ocean model that solves the equations of motion on unstructured meshes.

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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).

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FormatFuzzer

FormatFuzzer is a framework for high-efficiency, high-quality generation and parsing of binary inputs. It takes a binary template that describes the format of a binary input and generates an executable that produces and parses the given binary format. From a binary template for GIF, for instance, FormatFuzzer produces a GIF generator - also known as GIF fuzzer.

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GeoStat-Framework

The GeoStat Framework is a coherent ecosystem of Python packages for geostatistical applications and subsurface simulations. It provides an easily usable open source collection of software packages. They are well documented, including exhaustive hands-on guides and examples for helping non-programmers and non-domain-experts getting started.

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IGMAS+

Modern geophysical interpretation requires an interdisciplinary approach and software capable of handling multiple inhomogeneous data like seismic, FTG gravity, magnetic and magnetotelluric in complex geological environments.

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Kadi4Mat

Kadi4Mat is an open source software for managing research data, which support a close cooperation between experimenters, theorists an simulators, especially in the field of materials science.

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mHM

The mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM) is a well established hydrological model used by the scientific community. It is under active development with dozens of contributors and has an open community always interested in discussions.

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MassBank

MassBank is an open source mass spectral library for the identification of small chemical molecules of metabolomics, exposomics and environmental relevance.

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matRad

matRad is a dose calculation and inverse treatment planning toolkit for radiotherapy research and education written in Matlab.

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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.

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Millepede II

Millepede II has been developed to solve the linear least squares problem with a simultaneous fit of all global and local parameters, irrespectively of the number of local parameters.

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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.

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ODV

Ocean Data View (ODV) is a software package for the interactive exploration, analysis and visualization of oceanographic and other geo-referenced environmental data. ODV runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. ODV data and view files are platform-independent and can be exchanged between different systems.

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openCARP

openCARP is a multiscale cardiac electrophysiology simulator for in silico experiments ranging from single heart cells and cardiac tissue to organ models up to the body surface ECG.

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HZDR Multiphase Addon for OpenFOAM

The HZDR Multiphase Addon is a software publication released by Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf according to the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuseability). It contains experimental research work for the open-source CFD software OpenFOAM, released by The OpenFOAM Foundation. The developments are dedicated to the numerical simulation of multiphase flows, in particular to the multi-field two-fluid model (Euler-Euler method).

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OpenGeoSys

OpenGeoSys (OGS) is a scientific open source project for the development of numerical methods for the simulation of thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in porous and fractured media.

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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.

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PIConGPU

PIConGPU is a relativistic Particle-in-Cell code running on graphic processing units as well as regular multi-core processors. It is Open Source und is freely available for download. PIConGPU is developed and maintained by the Computational Radiation Physics Group at the Institute for Radiation Physics at HZDR in close collaboration with the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS).

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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.

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RCE

RCE is a distributed integration environment for scientists and engineers to analyze, optimize, and design complex systems like aircraft, ships, or satellites.

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SaQC

A consistent, extensible, easy-to-use tool/framework for reproducible quality control of time series data.

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Tamarin Prover

The Tamarin Prover is a state-of-the-art tool for the analysis of security protocols, which underpin the security of modern distributed computing; Tamarin has been used in analyses of TLS 1.3, 5G, and the EMV (Chip-and-pin) standards, in each case finding attacks and proving strong assurance properties for fixed variants of the protocols. Tamarin's formal analysis supports both falsification and unbounded verification in the symbolic model of cryptography.

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TRIDEC Cloud

TRIDEC Cloud merges several complementary external and in-house cloud-based services into one platform for automated background computation, for web-mapping of hazard specific geospatial data, and for serving relevant functionality to handle, share, and communicate threat specific information in a collaborative and distributed environment.

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