Bioinformatics is meant as a multi-disciplinary science for the study of biological systems at the molecular and cellular level by using informatics and computational methods and models.
Main goals of the associations are the study, development and spreading of Bioinformatics in a scientific, academic, technological and industrial environment.
Welcome to the BITS Web Site!
Main goals of the associations are the study, development and spreading of Bioinformatics in a scientific, academic, technological and industrial environment.
Welcome to the BITS Web Site!
EDUCATION PAPER: BIOINFORMATICS COURSES IN ITALY
The Training&Teaching group of the BITS proposed to university professors a survey aimed at portraying the current situation of bioinformatics courses within undergraduate curricula in Italy.
The paper is published in Plos Computational Biology journal.
The paper is published in Plos Computational Biology journal.
NEWS
The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society will be held 27-29 May 2026 in Padua.
The conference is open to anyone with an interest in connecting with the Bioinformatics Italian Society.
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CSAMA is a summer school dedicated to advanced statistical and computational analysis of modern molecular biological and biomedical data, combining lectures with practical training sessions. ...read more
The 3rd edition of YMW will take place in March, co-organized by The Italian Bioinformatics Society (BITS) and the Italian Society of Human Genetics (SIGU) young groups. ...read more
This EMBO Practical Course provides advanced theoretical and hands-on training in population genomics, teaching participants how to analyze genomic variation to infer demographic history, detect natural selection, and apply modern statistical and computational tools to evolutionary research. ...read more
PhD Project Proposal: "A Physical Model of miRNA-Binding Activity in Animals and Plants" ...read more
We have openings for two Postdoctoral Researchers funded by a prestigious Research Ireland (SFI) Frontiers for the Future Award. This project will investigate how tumour mutations act through lncRNAs to drive cancer, and how we can harness this for novel therapies. ...read more
1st ANNUAL CONGRESS ITALIAN SOCIETY OF LIQUID BIOPSY [SIBIL ETS] at CNR in Rome ...read more
