The Bioinformatics Italian Society, together with the Institute for Informatics and Telematics (CNR) and the Department of Computer Science (University of Pisa), is glad to invite you to the 2011 edition of its Annual Meeting. The event will take place at the CNR Research Campus (Area della Ricerca) in Pisa, Italy, June 20-22, 2011. The BITS annual meeting, celebrating this year its eighth edition, is the major event organized by the Italian research community in Bioinformatics.