BITS '09: First announcement and preliminary Call for Papers

BITS 2009
Sixth Annual Meeting of the Italian Bioinformatics Society
18-20 March 2009, Genova
http://bits09.istge.it/

First Announcement and Preliminary Call for Papers

The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics =

Italian Society (BITS 2009) aims at presenting
some of the hottest bioinformatics achievements, =

as well as a landscape of Italian bioinformatics
research. It is also intended to allow young =

researchers to present their work in a collaborative
and supporting atmosphere.

BITS 2009 will include keynote lectures, oral =

communications, posters presentations and
tutorials. Social activities will include a =

welcome reception, a guided tour of the historical city
center of Genoa, one of the oldest towns in Italy, and the social dinner.

Invited Speakers
=95 Alex Bateman, Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
=95 Peer Bork, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
=95 Rob Russel, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
=95 One more speaker to be confirmed

Topics
Submitted contributions should address novel =

bioinformatics methods, algorithms, databases,
tools and applications for research and =

development in one or more of the following domains:

- Genomics
- Molecular Evolution
- Protein structure and function
- Proteomics
- Transcriptomics
- Gene expression
- Biological Interaction Networks and Pathways
- Systems Biology
- In-silico drug design
- Clinical Bioinformatics
- Bio-ontologies

This list is by no means exclusive of any further =

topics in the field of Bioinformatics.

Deadlines
- January 20, 2009: Oral communications submission
- February 10, 2009: Posters submission
- February 13, 2009: Early registration (reduced fee)

Instructions
Abstracts must be submitted through the BITS 2009 =

Abstracts submission form (soon available!).
All abstracts must be written in English and =

structured in the following sections: Motivation, Methods, Results.
Abstracts' length cannot be greater than 5,000 =

characters or 4,000 characters (spaces included) =

when a figure is also included.
All accepted contributions will be published in the abstracts' book.
Organizers are considering the possibility of =

identifying an internationally peer-reviewed journal to publish a Supplement
including extended versions of best oral =

communications and posters as full papers.

Scientific Committee
+ D. Bordo, National Cancer Research Institute of Genova
+ R. Casadio, University of Bologna
+ M.L. Chiusano, University of Naples
+ M. Helmer-Citterich, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
+ F. Masulli, University of Genoa
+ L. Milanesi, ITB/CNR, Milan
+ M. Muselli, IEIIT/CNR, Genoa
+ E. Pizzi, National Institute of Health, Rome
+ G. Pesole, Univerity of Bari
+ P. Romano, National Cancer Research Institute of Genoa

Organizing Committee
+ D. Bordo, National Cancer Research Institute of Genova
+ F. Masulli, University of Genoa
+ M. Muselli, IEIIT/CNR, Genoa
+ P. Romano, National Cancer Research Institute of Genoa


Paolo Romano ([email protected])
Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Genova, Italy
http://www.nettab.org/promano/