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This article is part of the supplement: Italian Society of Bioinformatics (BITS): Annual Meeting 2005 .

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Overview of BITS2005, the Second Annual Meeting of the Italian Bioinformatics Society

Manuela Helmer-Citterich1 email, Rita Casadio2 email, Alessandro Guffanti3 email, Giancarlo Mauri4 email, Luciano Milanesi5 email, Graziano Pesole6 email, Giorgio Valle7 email and Cecilia Saccone5,8 email

1Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Dept of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

2Department of Biology, University of Bologna, Italy

3FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy

4Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication, University of Milan-Biococca, Milan, Italy

5Institute for Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council (ITB-CNR), Milan, Italy

6Dept of Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

7Department of Biology and CRIBI Biotechnology Centre, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

8University of Bari and ITB - CNR, Bari, Italy

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from Italian Society of Bioinformatics (BITS): Annual Meeting 2005
Milan, Italy. 17–19 March 2005

BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6(Suppl 4):S1doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-S4-S1

Published: 1 December 2005

Abstract

The BITS2005 Conference brought together about 200 Italian scientists working in the field of Bioinformatics, students in Biology, Computer Science and Bioinformatics on March 17–19 2005, in Milan. This Editorial provides a brief overview of the Conference topics and introduces the peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publication in this Supplement.


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