Status of perturbative QCD calculations for deep-inelastic scattering and related processes

We give a brief overview of the status of perturbative QCD calculations for deep-inelastic scattering. The radiative corrections to the Wilson coefficients are generally available to next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD and we address the accuracy of the strong coupling constant, the parton distributions of the nucleon and the heavy quark masses which is required for precision predictions. We also discuss related processes at hadron colliders such as Higgs production via weak boson fusion which can be described through structure functions of deep-inelastic scattering, building upon an approximate, although very accurate, factorization of the perturbative QCD corrections.