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!
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.
NEWS
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The 2025 BITS meeting will be held in Napoli, from the 11th to the 13th of June, plus satellite activities on Tuesday 10th. ...read more
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10 February 2026
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
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2 February 2026
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
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30 January 2026
The Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology at San Raffaele Hospital (Milan) is seeking a bioinformatician (junior or senior level). ...read more
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9 February 2026
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
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30 January 2026
1st ANNUAL CONGRESS ITALIAN SOCIETY OF LIQUID BIOPSY [SIBIL ETS] at CNR in Rome ...read more
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28 January 2026
The International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB) is an international, multidisciplinary meeting for researchers exploring the application of Computational Intelligence techniques, broadly defined, to challenging problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, and medical informatics ...read more