Welcome to BITS2014, Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society February 26-28, 2014, Rome, Italy.

The Bioinformatics Italian Society, together with the Department of Biology of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the Istituto Superiore di Sanita and the Department of Physics of the University of Rome La Sapienza, is glad to invite you to the Eleventh Annual Conference of BITS. This year the meeting will feature as keynote speakers leading researchers such as Ewan Birney, Franca Fraternali and Gunnar von Heijne. The event will take place at the Department of Physics, of the University of Rome La Sapienza, in Rome, Aula Amaldi, February 26-28, 2014. The BITS Annual meeting, now at its eleventh edition, is the major event organized by the Italian research community in Bioinformatics.