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Editorial
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This special issue of Bioinformatics contains the proceedings of the joint meeting of the 7th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) and the 5th Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS). The conference was held from September 22 to 26 in the Congress Center of Cagliari, Italy.
ECCB is the major European conference in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. It covers computational methods aimed at addressing key issues in molecular biology, genomics, proteomics and molecular medicine. Past editions of ECCB have been held in Vienna (AT), Eilat (IL), Madrid (ES), Glasgow (UK), Paris (F) and Saarbrüken (D).
ECCB owes its success to the hard and diligent work of its steering committee and of the many scientists who volunteer to manage and review the papers submitted to the conference.
The aim of the conference is to provide a scientific forum