An overview of bioinformatics courses delivered at the academic level in Italy: Reflections and recommendations from BITS

• Roberto Marangoni ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail:roberto.marangoni@unipi.it (RM); amarabotti@unisa.it (AM)

  Affiliations Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), Roma, Italy, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Vitoantonio Bevilacqua,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), Roma, Italy, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, Bary, Italy

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• Mario Cannataro,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), Roma, Italy, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy

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• Bruno Hay Mele,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), Roma, Italy, Department of Biology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5579-183X

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• Giancarlo Mauri,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), Roma, Italy, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3520-4022

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• Anna Marabotti ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail:roberto.marangoni@unipi.it (RM); amarabotti@unisa.it (AM)

  Affiliations Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), Roma, Italy, Department of Chemistry and Biology “A. Zambelli”, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9510-5205

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• on behalf of the BITS Training&Teaching group

  ¶Membership of the BITS Training&Teaching Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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