Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Group
Department of Information Engineering – University of Padova
All SysBiobig news
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
On May 10th 2022, the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL organizes a workshop on Complex Systems: from Physics to Biomedicine in honor of Giorgio Parisi, Nobel Laureate for Physics 2021. The meeting will be introduced by Corrado De Concini, President of the Accademia, Maria Cristina Messa, Italian Minister of University and Research, and Roberto Gualtieri, Mayor of Rome. Giorgio Parisi will open the workshop, where new approaches to investigate the complexity of natural and man-made systems will be discussed.
Our PI, Prof. Barbara Di Camillo, will held a talk entitled “FROM SINGLE-CELL TO MULTI-CELLS INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS”.
Here the full programme
On Friday 18 February 2022, the Accademia di Medicina di Torino hosted a scientific meeting entitled Big data in transactional neuroscience. The meeting was introduced by Adriano Chiò, Head of the ALS Center of the University of Turin and member of the Academy. Our PI, Prof. Barbara Di Camillo, held a lecture on how the use of big data and Artificial Intelligence may impact in healthcare and, more specifically, in Translational Neuroscience.
ABSTRACT: In recent years we are facing a change in the socio-economic health models based on data. This is the result of the increase in the volume, speed, and variety of data collected in the healthcare sector, combined with the development of Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies. However, the effective use of this data to address the challenges in understanding and treating human health problems has yet to show its full potential. The barriers that limit the impact and practical application of Artificial Intelligence in the healthcare sector are diverse. In addition to the volume characterizing “Big Data”, their heterogeneity, complexity, variability, together with their often dynamic nature pose a number of technical and methodological challenges. Moreover, the management of the data and the interpretation of the results raise new questions related to ethical aspects, and indicate a need to change the organizational model of health management. This lecture will illustrate some basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence, discussing through some practical examples potential, challenges, and limits of its use in the medical field.
You can find the recording here (in italian only)
The 2nd Process Mining for Healthcare (PM4HC) Workshop that our Post-doc Erica Tavazzi organized together with Roberto Gatta, Lucia Sacchi, and Arianna Dagliati from the Universities of Brescia and Pavia took place yesterday.
It was a great occasion to explore the work in progress in a number of Italian institutions where new methodologies and useful applications are shedding a light on the processes happening in healthcare. Our group also had the pleasure to present our recent research on the investigation of the effectiveness of a data-driven approach to statistical analysis and its applications to Melanoma and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
A big thank you goes to SIBIM – Italian Scientific Society of Biomedical Informatics – for sponsoring this nice event, to the University of Brescia for generously hosting the workshop, and to all the onsite and online participants for their impressive contributions and the very fruitful open discussion!
