title: The joint NETTAB/Integrative Bioinformatics 2015 Meeting: aims, topics and outcomes.
abstract: The 15thInternational NETTAB workshop and the 11thIntegrative Bioinformatics Symposium were held together in Bari, on October 14-16, 2016, as Joint NETTAB/IB 2015 Meeting. A special topic for the meeting was "Bioinformatics for ncRNA", but the traditional topics of both meetings series were also included in the event.About 60 scientific contributions were presented, including six keynote lectures, one special guest lecture, and many oral communications and posters. A "Two-Day Hands-on Tutorial" event was organised before the workshop.Selected full papers from some of the best works presented in Bari were submitted either to the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics or to a purpose Call for a Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics.Here, we provide an overview of meeting aims and scope. We also shortly introduce selected papers that have been either accepted for publication in this Supplement or published in the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, for a more complete presentation of the outcomes of the meeting.
authors.affiliation: IRCCS AOU San Martino IST, Genoa, I-16132, Italy. paolo.romano@hsanmartino.it.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.affiliation: University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, D-33615, Germany.
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hofestädt
authors.affiliation: Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lange
authors.affiliation: Institute for Biomedical Technology - National Research Council, Bari, I-70126, Italy.
authors.forename: Domenica
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: D'Elia
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D022661:RNA, Untranslated
chemical_list: D022661:RNA, Untranslated