The BITS steering commitee have a pleasure to announce that prof. Risa Casadio is one of the ISCB Distinguished Fellow 2020. (link alla web page). Prof Casadio was selected thanks to her outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. Congratulation from all the BITS members!

This special issue aims to host original papers and reviews on recent research advances and the state-of- the-art methods in the elds of statistical and machine learning methodologies

Guido Capitani passed away on May 2, 2017. He was a prolific crystallographer, with 70 protein structures in the Protein Data Bank over the past two decades. He made significant contributions to computational structural biology and in the analysis of protein-protein interfaces.

Computational Approaches to Elucidate the Role of Noncoding Mutations in Cancer.