title: Bioinformatics in Italy: BITS2011, the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Bioinformatics.
abstract: The BITS2011 meeting, held in Pisa on June 20-22, 2011, brought together more than 120 Italian researchers working in the field of Bioinformatics, as well as students in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biology, Computer Sciences, and Engineering, representing a landscape of Italian bioinformatics research.This preface provides a brief overview of the meeting and introduces the peer-reviewed manuscripts that were accepted for publication in this Supplement.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Helmer-Citterich
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D058615:Synthetic Biology; D049490:Systems Biology
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins