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The last years have seen an impressive revolution in the theory and application of bioinformatics since new technologies and the abundance of different types of data to be integrated in a personalized medicine perspective are posing various methodological challenges in different fields such as, for example, single cell analysis, individual genome analysis and pan-genomes, Multi-omics data analysis and integration with clinical data.
In this special issue, we invite researchers to submit primary research focusing on translational bioinformatics methods that, starting from population-based molecular profiling, clinical data, epidemiological data, and other types of data make healthcare decisions tailored to groups of patients or individual patients.

📢 SPECIAL ISSUE on Journal of Biomedical Informatics
🗓️SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2023
ℹ️MORE INFO: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104170
➡️GUEST EDITORS: Prof. Barbara Di Camillo (SysBioBig, Unipd) and Prof. Rosalba Giugno (InfOmics, Univr)

• Oral communication: “Differential cellular communication analysis across multi-condition and multi-patient scRNA-seq data” (G. Cesaro, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo)
• Oral communication: “An agent-based simulator for microbial communities’ evolution” (M. Bellato, M. Cappellato, A. Calzavara, S. Rebecca, A. Lucchiari, B. Di Camillo)

• Poster contribution: “Somatic read simulators: how to build a realistic gold standard using data from well-annotated cancer databases” (E. Hazizaj, F. Longhin, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo)
• Poster contribution: “Simulation of ground truth interaction networks from microbial community model” (A. Rossato, M. Cappellato, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo)
• Poster contribution: “Simulate tumor microenvironment evolution from sequencing data through a hybrid Multi-Agent Spatio-Temporal model” (G. Cesaro, M. Milia, G. Baruzzo, P. Alotto, N.F. da Cunha Carvalho de Miranda, Z. Trajanoski, F. Finotello, B. Di Camillo)

For more details, check the conference website: https://www.bbcc-meetings.it/

Just come back from ECCB2022 in Sitges, Barcellona. We had the opportunity to participate (finally in presence) in this great conference. Lots of talks, new opportunities for collaboration and exchange of ideas. This is research and science!
A list of our contributions:
– Workshop: “Spatial transcriptomics and cell-cell communication modeling: new opportunities to study the cellular dynamics of biological systems” (Baruzzo G, Calura E, Risso D, Romualdi C, Sales G, García-Alonso L, Vento-Tormo R, Saez-Rodriguez J, Saeys Y)
– Tutorial: “Software containerization in bioinformatics: how to make reproducible, portable and reusable bioinformatics software&pipelines” (Baruzzo G, Di Camillo B, Cappellato M, Cesaro G, Milia M)
– Poster contribution: “Differential Abundance analysis of microbiome data: which tool and how to choose it?” (Cappellato M, Baruzzo G, Di Camillo B)
– Poster contribution: “Analysis of differential cellular communication from single cell RNA-seq data with scSeqComm” (Cesaro G, Baruzzo G, Di Camillo B)
– Poster contribution: “Temporal changes in microbiome composition after FMT in subject with Clostridioides difficile infection: a network perspective” (Cappellato M, Bellato M, Baruzzo G, Facchin S, Barzon L, Besutti V, Brun P, Del Favero S, Schenato L, Savarino EV, Castagliuolo I, Di Camillo B)
– Poster contribution: “Tumor microenvironment evolution simulated through a hybrid Multi-Agent Spatio-Temporal model informed using sequencing data” (Milia M, Cesaro G, Baruzzo G, Finco G, Morandini F, Lazzarini A, Alotto P, de Miranda NF, Trajanoski Z, Finotello F, Di Camillo B)
– Poster contribution: “Simulation of ground truth interaction networks from microbial community model” (Rossato A, Cappellato M, Nikoloska N, Baruzzo G, Di Camillo B)

Our team attended the International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages 2022 in Bologna, Italy. We had the opportunity to present our work concerning the intelligent Disease Progression Prediction challenge (https://brainteaser.health/open-evaluation-challenges/idpp-2022/) providing valuable insights on the challenge organisation, evaluation framework, and baseline models development.

Last week we were at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS 2022) in Verona, Italy. Great experience, with a lot of inspiring talks from all the bioinformatics landscapes.
Moreover, we had the opportunity to chat and exchange ideas (finally in presence!) about our work: that’s science!
Special thanks to all the organisers for making it possible

For more details, check the conference website: https://bioinformatics.it/bits2022