I'm a bioinformatics and data science researcher working at the intersection of computational biology, artificial intelligence, and biomedical data integration.
I am currently an Assistant Researcher at the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), University of Minho, within the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BiSBi) research group.
My research focuses on developing and applying machine learning, generative AI, and knowledge graph approaches to study pathogens, infectious diseases, treatment response, and antimicrobial strategies.
- 🧬 Working with biological and clinical data integration
- 🤖 Developing predictive and generative AI approaches for pathogen-related research
- 🕸️ Building and applying biomedical knowledge graphs
- 🦠 Interested in pathogen genomics, phage–host interactions, and antimicrobial discovery
- 🛠️ Developing reproducible tools and pipelines for bioinformatics, sequence analysis, and biomedical data science
- 🔎 Interested in explainable AI, uncertainty-aware prediction, and reproducible computational research
- Artificial intelligence for pathogen and infectious disease research
- Biomedical knowledge graphs and graph-based learning
- Machine learning and generative AI in bioinformatics
- Pathogen genomics and sequence analysis
- HIV-1 evolution, diversity, and drug resistance
- Phage–host interaction prediction
- Computational antimicrobial discovery
- Reproducible bioinformatics workflows and data integration
Python toolkit for HIV-1 sequence alignment, subtyping, and gene splitting.
Reproducible pipeline for HIV-1 coreceptor tropism prediction, integrating sequence preprocessing, encoding strategies, and machine learning/deep learning models.
Machine learning pipeline for patient-level malaria therapeutic failure prediction.
Scalable Snakemake pipeline for automated and standardized biomedical knowledge graph construction.
Programming & Data
- Python
- SQL / MySQL
- Git / GitHub
- ETL & data integration
- Snakemake
- Power BI
Bioinformatics & AI
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Generative AI
- Biomedical Knowledge Graphs
- Graph-based methods
- Sequence Analysis
- Drug Resistance Analysis
- Phylogenetics
I also contribute to teaching, mentoring, and science communication, particularly in bioinformatics, Python, artificial intelligence, and computational approaches for biomedical research.
- 📫 Email: anaapspereira@gmail.com
- 🌍 ORCID: 0000-0001-6410-7972