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The Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (AB3C) is a scientific society funded in July 12^th 2004. Since its creation, AB3C has been responsible for the annual conference entitled “X-Meeting” which is the main Bioinformatics and Computation Biology event in Brazil. This year its 16th edition. Due to pandemics, it occurred online in a format called X-meeting XPerience from October 27^th to October 29^th. All the posters in this edition were presented as short videos that could be accessed from the event official web site (https://x-meeting.com/events/2021).

In this edition the Board of Directors of AB3C acknowledged the AB3C Medal of ScientificMerit to Professor Guilherme Oliveira from Vale Technological Institute (ITV) to both the Association and for the Field of Bioinformatics at Brazil.

This X-Meeting XP also had a pre event activities encompassing the Special Interests Groups (SIGs) on INTELLIGENT IN SILICO ANALYSIS FOR BIOLOGY and three schools MONTAGEM DE GENOMAS BACTERIANOS, UNDERSTANDING THE MOST OUT OF DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION FROM SCRATCH and PYTHON FOR BIOINFORMATICS.

Bioinformatics is now a strategic area for Brazil and all Latin America and, therefore, it is also strategic to the development of Science, Technology and Economy. The X-Meeting is a Brazilian event with international reach which has an average of 210 participants. The Conference is an opportunity for students, researchers and companies to interact and diffuse knowledge.

The AB3C has been a pioneer society in the field of Bioinformatics in Brazil and we have a history of ten past very productive meetings. This year we successfully adapted most of the traditional sections to online versions.