BITS2019: the sixteenth annual meeting of the Italian society of bioinformatics

Abstract

The 16th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society was held in Palermo, Italy, on June 26-28, 2019. More than 80 scientific contributions were presented, including 4 keynote lectures, 31 oral communications and 49 posters. Also, three workshops were organised before and during the meeting. Full papers from some of the works presented in Palermo were submitted for this Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics. Here, we provide an overview of meeting aims and scope. We also shortly introduce selected papers that have been accepted for publication in this Supplement, for a complete presentation of the outcomes of the meeting.

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“…Several bioinformatics conferences publish post-conference supplements in international journals: for example, the ECCB and ISMB conferences in the Bioinformatics (Oxford) journal [ 31 ]; NETTAB and BITS in BMC Bioinformatics [ 32 , 33 ]; CIBB in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making [ 34 ] and BMC Bioinformatics [ 35 ]; ACM BCB [ 36 ], GENSIPS [ 37 ], BIBM [ 38 ], BIOKDD [ 39 ], DMBIH [ 40 ], and others in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; VIZBI in Frontiers in Bioinformatics [ 25 ]; iABC in Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics [ 41 ]; and AIME in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine [ 42 ]. Some conference organizers or participants also publish conference reports to highlight and recap the main insights of the organized scientific meetings [ 43 ]: It is a possibility that we suggest to consider, too.…”