cosbi celebrated its fifth anniversary by hosting the conference merging knowledge: from programming languages to personalized healthcare, trento, italy (november 30 – december 3, 2010). during the event scientific speakers discussed the relevance of computer science to the study of systems biology by exploring the main fields of computational and systems biology, as well as nutrigenomics, which merges personalized medicine with personalized diet. among the lecturers: tony hoare, principal researcher at microsoft research; leroy hood, president of the institute for systems biology; james kaput, a director within the u.s. food and drug administration; and jeannette wing, president’s professor of computer science and department head of the school of computer science at carnegie mellon university.