The School of Biology, Computation, and Information (BCI), reaching this year its fifth edition, aims at bringing together Teachers and Students in Biology, Mathematics, and Computer Science. The main goal of the School is to give an updated overview of interdisciplinary techniques and problems cross-bordering the three fields.

This year's edition will be centered on (Re)Sequencing and Annotating Genomes, touching a field in which new technologies and old problems meet in a context calling for an even higher level of interaction among the three different disciplines at the core of the School. The three distinguished speakers for this year's edition are Michele Morgante (Biology), Alberto Apostolico
(Computer Science), and Laxmi Parida (Mathematics) and the school will take place during the second week of September (September 8-12, 2008).

During the school, on Tuesday September 9th, a one-day workshop will take place. It will be titled New Sequencing
Technologies. Excellence lecturers and technological representatives will be invited and the participants to the School may submit an abstract leading to a twenty-minutes presentation during the workshop. Abstracts will be sent to and selected/judged by the Scientific Committee.

Organizing Committee

SCHOOL DIRECTOR: Alberto Policriti - University of Udine
SCHOOL CO-DIRECTOR: Luca Bortolussi - University of Trieste
SCHOOL CO-DIRECTOR: Elia Stupka - CBM, cluster in biomedicine, Trieste
Alberto Casagrande - IGA, Institute of Applied Genomics, Udine
Cristian Del Fabbro - IGA, Institute of Applied Genomics, Udine
Cristina Leonesi - CBM, cluster in biomedicine, Trieste
Simone Scalabrin - IGA, Institute of Applied Genomics, Udine
Andrea Sgarro - University of Trieste
Nicola Vitacolonna - University of Udine
Scientific Committee

Alberto Apostolico - Centro Interdisciplinare ''Beniamino Segre'', Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Luca Bortolussi - University of Trieste
Michael Brudno - University of Toronto
Alberto Casagrande - IGA, Institute of Applied Genomics, Udine
Francesco Fabris - University of Trieste
Michele Morgante - University of Udine
Eugenio Omodeo - University of Trieste
Laxmi Parida - IBM Watson Research Center
Carla Piazza - University of Udine
Alberto Policriti - University of Udine
Simone Scalabrin - IGA, Institute of Applied Genomics, Udine
Andrea Sgarro - University of Trieste
Elia Stupka - CBM, cluster in biomedicine, Trieste
Nicola Vitacolonna - University of Udine