REBICA is the annual scientific conference of the bioinformatics community at the Université Côte d’Azur (UniCA).

The goal is to provide all bioinformatics researchers from the institutes and laboratories of the Université Côte d’Azur with an opportunity to come together for a day to present their work, exchange ideas, and network with a view to future collaborations.

One of the priorities is to enable doctoral students and early-career researchers to develop their communication skills in a high-level interdisciplinary setting. We also invite two recognized experts to broaden the range of topics covered and include fields that are less represented locally.

This is a major opportunity to discover the latest developments at other institutes and laboratories and to address critical infrastructure challenges (storage, computing, data security). Many teams are conducting research related to human health, plant health, and the environment.

· Algorithms and data structures for sequences
· Knowledge representation and visualization, and databases
· Evolution, phylogenetics, and comparative genomics
· Functional and integrative genomics
· Metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and microbial ecosystems
· Structural bioinformatics and proteomics
· Statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and image analysis
· Spatial transcriptomics
· Mathematical modelling
· Systems biology and metabolomics
· Workflows, reproducibility, and open science