Great to see #BITS members at #ISMBECCB2025, the Conference of the International Society of Computational Biology in Liverpool! Congrats to Giulia Cesaro, Mirko Treccani, Leonardo Morelli & Laura Veschetti for presenting at the NetBio, Transmed, HitSeq & iRNA sessions!

One last thank you to all the sponsors, organisers, and institutional supporters who made #BITS2025 possible.

#BITS2025 comes to an end. Thanks to all speakers, participants, and organisers for contributing to a successful edition. See you next year in Padua for #BITS2026!

The final symposium of #BITS2025 is now underway, with contributions from Francesca Pia Panaccione, Harsh Poddar, Amalia Chiariello, and Carlo Cipriani.

At #BITS2025, Simone Pernice presented Young-InfoLife (CINI), which fosters networking among young researchers working in bioinformatics and related fields. #YoungInfoLife #Bioinformatics

RSG-Italy, a community of students in bioinformatics and computational biology with a connection to Italy 🇮🇹 #RSGItaly #Bioinformatics

Congratulations to the #BITS2025 Poster Prize winners! 🏆 🥇 1st Prize: Riccardo Arnese 🥈 2nd Prize: Giada Sancamillo Well done to both👏

Thank you for making #BITS2025 a success! Let’s gather one last time for closing remarks, acknowledgements, and to celebrate our achievements.

What are the real prospects of AI and LLM in bioinformatics? Join the round table at #BITS2025 for a discussion on innovation, applications, and the ethical landscape of these technologies. with Bruno Hay-Mel, Giovanni Scala, Antonino Staiano, Gennaro Gambardella, Andrea Peccari

Take a well-deserved break with the community at the final lunch of #BITS2025. A great moment to exchange ideas before the closing sessions.

Where will the next BITS meeting take place? See you in Padua for #BITS2026.

Winning team special mention for Clustering Accuracy of the first International #BioHackathon at the #BITS2025 goes to: Andrea Ninni, Gospel Ozioma Nnadi, Romane Gauthier, Thomas Grant

Winning team special mention for Reproducibility at the #BITS2025 #BioHackathon goes to: Antonella Cruoglio, Beatrice Nuvolari, Emanuela Scafuri & Sandro Gepiro Contaldo! #OpenScience #Bioinformatics

Almost time to award the winning team of the first International #BioHackathon at #BITS2025! 🏆 Meanwhile, the organisers are sharing how it all came together, stay tuned!

"Wrapping up the Proteins session at #BITS2025, chaired by Bruno Hay-Mele & Pasqualina D’Ursi. @bhym.bsky.social ‬ #Bioinformatics #Proteins"

Romina Oliva presents COCOMAPS-2.0 and NAPOLI, tools to explore biomolecular interfaces and interactions. Catch her talk at #BITS2025.

Discover how RING 4.0 uses Residue Interaction Networks to analyze proteins in depth. Sol Begue Tosatto presents new interaction types, MD integration & advanced visual tools at #BITS2025

The #BITS2025 session Systems Biology and Multi-Omics is coming to an end! Chaired by Raffaele Calogero, Giacomo Baruzzo, and Simone Pernice #SystemsBiology #MultiOmics #Genomics #Bioinformatics

Lorenzo Federico Signorini presents NetCos at #BITS2025, a network-based method to improve drug repurposing by refining connectivity scores.

Elvira Toscano presents SimulCell, a simulation tool to model cancer cell behavior and interactions in dynamic environments. Don’t miss it at #BITS2025.

At #BITS2025, we had the pleasure of recognising Vincenza Colonna for her outstanding BITS lecture: “Integrating genetic ancestry, environmental exposure and health equity.” Congratulations, and thank you for your valuable contribution to this year’s conference!

Don’t miss Vincenza Colonna’s #BITS2025 lecture on ancestry, exposure & equity in genomics, using insights from 42K individuals in the BIG project.

Elisabetta Sciacca presents multiDEGGs at #BITS2025, a graph-based tool for multi-omic analysis and ML feature selection,revealing key mechanisms behind treatment resistance.

Riccardo Aucello presents a computational approach to identify minimal SCFA-producing microbiomes in MS using metabolic modeling. At #BITS2025.

How do tumors evolve? Daniela Volpatto presents a simulator that models clonal dynamics and selective pressures in cancer at #BITS2025.

Discover Ulisse, a new tool presented by Alice Chiodi to study crosstalk in omics data, adding a new layer to biomedical research tools: now at #BITS2025.

First session of Day 3 at #BITS2025: “Systems Biology and Multi-Omics” Chairs: Raffaele Calogero, Giacomo Baruzzo & Simone Pernice #Bioinformatics #MultiOmics #Genomics

Welcome to Day 3 of #BITS2025! Today’s sessions: 🔹 Systems Biology & Multi-Omics 🔹 Proteins 🔹 Closing Roundtable: AI & LLMs in Bioinformatics Let’s end on a high note! #Bioinformatics #AI #LLM #Proteomics #BITS2025

As day two of #BITS2025 comes to a close, a big thank you to our sponsors and supporters. See you tomorrow for the final day!

"How do we protect genomic data? Claudio Lo Giudice presents BioRepository@ELIXIR-IT: secure, FAIR, and built for research at #BITS2025. @elixir-it.bsky.social

Discover the Italian Collaborative Working Environment (ItCWE) — a FAIR, sustainable platform for microbial data sharing across Italy. Presented by Sandro Gepiro Contaldo at #BITS2025.

Damiano Piovesan presents the future of MobiDB: new tools to tackle protein disorder and function at #BITS2025.

Can Federated Learning help rare disease research? Pietro Pinoli showcases the BETTER project’s secure AI-ready infrastructure for decentralised clinical data at #BITS2025.

Keep going at #BITS2025 with the special session on: "Sustainable Bioinformatics: Infrastructure, Interoperability, and Data Sharing" Chaired by Matteo Pallocca and Alessandro Cestaro @mpallocc.bsky.social

Discover quickSparseM with Giacomo Baruzzo: a scalable R library tackling the challenge of large-scale omics data computation. Don’t miss it at #BITS2025.

Let’s open the final session of the day with a keynote by Marialuisa Lavitrano on the role of Research Infrastructures in the EOSC landscape. #BITS2025

Final session of the day at #BITS2025: “Sustainable Bioinformatics: Infrastructure, Interoperability, and Data Sharing” Chairs: Matteo Pallocca & Alessandro Cestaro #FAIR #DataSharing #OpenScience @mpallocc.bsky.social

Heading to #BITS2025? Catch David Castillo from Sequentia introducing the collaboration with BatchX: bioinformatics at scale in a secure, cloud-native environment. #BatchX #Bioinformatics #OpenScience

Enrico Blanzieri applies OneGenE to grapevine data, showing how gene expression variability shapes causal networks more than dataset differences. At #BITS2025.

New method by Riccardo Pizzichemi improves genotoxicity detection in gene therapy using multiple readouts, now at #BITS2025.

Roberto Pagliarini presents a method to explore genetic variability using RNA-seq and ASE, tested on 98 grapevine genotypes. Flash talk at #BITS2025.

Now at #BITS2025: “Translational Bioinformatics: Clinics, Agriculture, Environment, Food” Chaired by Angelo Facchiano and Ramona Palombo #TranslationalBioinformatics #Genomics #GeneTherapy #Agrigenomics

Giulia De Riso presents X-Pose, integrating DNA & RNA sequencing to study X inactivation and uncover X-linked roles in unresolved NDDs at #BITS2025.

Mario Nicodemi on 3D chromatin and gene regulation at #BITS2025 @marionicodemi.bsky.social

Third session of Day 2 at #BITS2025: “Translational Bioinformatics: Clinics, Agriculture, Environment, Food” Chairs: Angelo Facchiano & Ramona Palombo Gene expression, genotoxicity, grapevine data & more! #Bioinformatics #Genomics

Getting ready for the third session of #BITS2025 Day 2 after the lunch break.

Stay connected during #BITS2025! Use the hashtag and tag us in your posts 🧬 We’re on: 🔹 X → x.com/BITS_bioinf 🔹 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/bioinformatics-italian-society-bits 🔹 BlueSky → bsky.app/profile/bits-bioinf.bsky.social

Recharge with fellow researchers during the lunch buffet at #BITS2025!

At #BITS2025, Aurelia Iuliana Timis shared results on DeNovoCNN: matched standard tools on key variants and simplified analysis.

Alisa Kumbara introduces CRISPR-HAWK at #BITS2025 A toolkit using variant and haplotype data to improve CRISPR guide design for safer, personalised genome editing.