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 2024 BITS meeting will be held in Trento, from the 12th to the 14th of June, plus additional activities planned for the Saturday 15th. ...read more
The Piccolo, Bicciato, and Risso labs at the University of Padova are seeking highly talented computational biologists for funded post-doctoral positions. Our teams utilize highly multiplexed imaging, spatial transcriptomics, and single-cell omics, combined with statistical and machine learning approaches, to investigate regulatory mechanisms in tumor development and metastasis. ...read more
At the University of Udine we are seeking for a motivated PhD candidate to work on comparison of different approaches for metagenomics analysis. ...read more
The increasing accessibility of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) platforms is creating a growing pressing need to train people capable to analyze the obtained results. This course will discuss the most appropriate computational and statistical methods available for scRNA-seq data analysis. ...read more
The person recruited will be responsible for the development, implementation and dissemination of new bioinformatics tools and databases. He/she will also be responsible for the maintenance and update of existing tools (databases, webservers). ...read more
The research activity consists in the structural and functional characterization of membrane trasporters involved in human pathologies, in particular cancer, to be performed with Bioinformatics methods. ...read more
This workshop is organized in Sweden, Italy, Greece, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania. The course will be run in parallel synchronized sessions using a hybrid online and in-person approach to train plant scientists in Africa and Europe in DNA methylation data analysis. ...read more
