BITS2019: the sixteenth annual meeting of the Italian society of bioinformatics
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BITS2019: the sixteenth annual meeting of the Italian society of bioinformatics Alfonso Urso1* , Antonino Fiannaca1 , Massimo La Rosa1 , Laura La Paglia1 , Giosue’ Lo Bosco2 and Riccardo Rizzo1 From Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS 2019) Palermo, Italy. 26-28 June 2019 *Correspondence: [email protected] 1 ICAR-CNR, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council of Italy, 90146 Palermo, Italy Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
Abstract The 16th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society was held in Palermo, Italy, on June 26-28, 2019. More than 80 scientific contributions were presented, including 4 keynote lectures, 31 oral communications and 49 posters. Also, three workshops were organised before and during the meeting. Full papers from some of the works presented in Palermo were submitted for this Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics. Here, we provide an overview of meeting aims and scope. We also shortly introduce selected papers that have been accepted for publication in this Supplement, for a complete presentation of the outcomes of the meeting.
BITS meetings Meetings of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS) [1] are a series of international conferences held annually in Italy since 2004 that highlight keynote talks by excellent scientists in bioinformatics and its applications, oral presentations of state-of-the-art research in bioinformatics and computational biology, and poster sessions on the latest research progress.
BITS 2019 Scope and rationale The event BITS 2019: 16th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS) was held on June 26-28 2019, in Palermo, Italy. The goals of the BITS association are the study, development and spreading of Bioinformatics in a scientific, academic, technological and industrial environment. The BITS meetings highlight keynote talks by excellent scientists in bioinformatics and its applications, presentations of state-of-the-art research in computational biology, and poster sessions on the latest research progress. Many aspects of the bioinformatics disciplines
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