CIBB 2015 and 2016 editionsCIBB2015 [1] was held in Naples, IT, from the 10 to the 12 September 2015 (http://bioinfo.na.iac.cnr.it/cibb2015/). This edition was particularly focused in different areas of bioinformatics and biostatistics to discuss recent advances, future perspectives and challenges aimed to have a high impact on molecular biology and translational medicine. Participants in CIBB2015 came from statistics, bioinformatics and bio-medical backgrounds and institutions, both from academia and the private sector. In particular, CIBB2015 offered collaboration opportunities and discussed novel results in areas of computational life sciences, and applied biologists were invited to join the discussion to propose novel challenges aimed to have a high impact for molecular biology and translational medicine. CIBB2015 also hosted five special sessions on specific themes: enhanced definition of genomic entities for systems biomedicine in oncology, metabolic models and statistical bioinformatics of adaptations and biological association, large-scale and HPC data analysis in bioinformatics, power of data analysis and integration method, regularization methods for genomic data analysis.CIBB2016 [2] was held in Stirling, UK, from the 1st to the 3rd September 2016 (http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/cibb2016/). This meeting particularly addressed advances and future perspectives in different areas, and fostered interaction between theory and practice. Results about methodologies used to model and analyse biological systems, about the practical applications of such models and approaches, as well as supporting technologies were discussed at the meeting. Participants in CIBB2016 came from mathematical, computational and medical backgrounds and institutions, both from academia and the private sector. CIBB2016 offered collaboration opportunities and novel results in areas of computational life sciences. Emerging and strongly developing trends and future opportunities at the edge of mathematics, computer and life sciences were discussed at the meeting, including synthetic biology, statistical investigation of genomic data, and applications to the understanding of complex diseases, such as cancer, and therapy opportunities. CIBB2016 also hosted six special sessions on specific themes: biomedical databases, synthetic cell biology, high-performance computing in genetics, modelling for systems biology and medicine, survival analysis and statistical inference in biological models.
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