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 2025 BITS meeting will be held in Napoli, from the 11th to the 13th of June, plus satellite activities on Tuesday 10th. ...read more
EMBO Practical Course combining theoretical foundations with practical implementation across the entire pangenomics workflow. ...read more
The 17th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2026) is the flagship conference of ACM SIGBio. It will move for the first time to Europe and will be held in Calabria, Italy from June 30 to July 3, 2026. ...read more
We are looking for a motivated postdoctoral researcher to join the AI for Genome Interpretation (AI4GI) group at the IGMM (CNRS, Montpellier). ...read more
Concorso pubblico, per titoli e colloquio, per l'assunzione con contratto di lavoro a tempo pieno e indeterminato di una unità di personale profilo dirigente tecnologo - I livello professionale – presso l'Istituto di Biomembrane, Bioenergetica e Biotecnologie Molecolari (IBIOM) del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – con sede a Bari (BA). BANDO N. 367.603 DT IBIOM ...read more
We are seeking a motivated and skilled bioinformatician to join the research group on human lymphomas and leukemias at the Institute of Hematology and Center for Hemato-Oncology Research. ...read more
IFOM is seeking a Research HPC Engineer for the growing Research Computing Infrastructure serving cutting-edge cancer research programs.
This position will work closely with faculty and research staff on scientific computing environments, including HPC clusters and specialized research servers supporting\ genomics, imaging analysis and clinical data workflows, both on-premises and in the cloud. ...read more
This position will work closely with faculty and research staff on scientific computing environments, including HPC clusters and specialized research servers supporting\ genomics, imaging analysis and clinical data workflows, both on-premises and in the cloud. ...read more




