Publications — Vera Afreixo

2025

1 publication

Journal Article Open Access

Psychological Mediators of the Association between Obesity and Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress

Henriques J., Afreixo V., Unterrainer H., Senra H.

Neuropsychobiology, 84(1), 26–37 DOI Scopus

2023

2 publications

Journal Article Open Access

Concentration of inverted repeats along human DNA

Bastos C.A.C., Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Pinho A.J.

Journal of integrative bioinformatics, 20(2) DOI Scopus

Conference Paper

Genomic Regions with Atypical Concentration of Inverted Repeats

Bastos C.A.C., Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Pinho A.J.

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 553, 89–99 DOI Scopus

2020

2 publications

Journal Article Open Access

Clustering genomic words in human DNA using peaks and trends of distributions

Tavares A.H., Raymaekers J., Rousseeuw P.J., Brito P., Afreixo V.

Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, 14(1), 57–76 DOI Scopus

Conference Paper Open Access

Detection and Characterization of Local Inverted Repeats Regularities

Bastos C.A.C., Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Pinho A.J.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1005, 113–120 DOI Scopus

2019

2 publications

Conference Paper Open Access

An Analysis of Symmetric Words in Human DNA: Adjacent vs Non-adjacent Word Distances

Bastos C.A.C., Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Pinho A.J.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 803, 80–87 DOI Scopus

Journal Article Open Access

Distribution of Distances Between Symmetric Words in the Human Genome: Analysis of Regular Peaks

Bastos C.A.C., Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Pinho A.J., Silva R.M.

Interdisciplinary Sciences – Computational Life Sciences, 11(3), 367–372 DOI Scopus

2018

1 publication

Journal Article Open Access

Comparing Reverse Complementary Genomic Words Based on Their Distance Distributions and Frequencies

Tavares A.H., Raymaekers J., Rousseeuw P.J., Silva R.M., Bastos C.A.C., Pinho A., Brito P., Afreixo V.

Interdisciplinary Sciences – Computational Life Sciences, 10(1), 1–11 DOI Scopus

2017

3 publications

Conference Paper Open Access

Dissimilar symmetric word pairs in the human genome

Tavares A.H., Raymaekers J., Rousseeuw P.J., Silva R.M., Bastos C.A.C., Pinho A., Brito P., Afreixo V.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 616, 248–256 DOI Scopus

Journal Article Open Access

DNA word analysis based on the distribution of the distances between symmetric words

Tavares A.H.M.P., Pinho A.J., Silva R.M., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Bastos C.A.C., Ferreira P.J.S.G., Afreixo V.

Scientific Reports, 7(1), 728 DOI Scopus

Journal Article

Exceptional Symmetry by Genomic Word: A Statistical Analysis

Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Bastos C.A.C., Tavares A.H.M.P., Silva R.M.

Interdisciplinary Sciences – Computational Life Sciences, 9(1), 14–23 DOI Scopus

2016

2 publications

Conference Paper

Exceptional symmetry profile: A genomic word analysis

Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Bastos C.A.C., Silva R.M.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 477, 151–159 DOI Scopus

Journal Article Open Access

The exceptional genomic word symmetry along DNA sequences

Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Bastos C.A.C., Silva R.M.

BMC Bioinformatics, 17(1), 59 DOI Scopus

2015

4 publications

Journal Article Open Access

Analysis of single-strand exceptional word symmetry in the human genome: New measures

Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Bastos C.A.C.

Biostatistics, 16(2), 209–221 DOI Scopus

Conference Paper

Identification of DNA CpG islands using inter-dinucleotide distances

Afreixo V., Bastos C.A.C., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Silva R.M.

Communications in Computer and Information Science, 499, 162–172 DOI Scopus

Conference Paper

New results and open problems in real-number codes

Ferreira P.J.S.G., Santos D.M.S., Afreixo V.M.A.

European Signal Processing Conference, 06-10-September-2004, 889–892 Scopus

Conference Paper Open Access

The symmetry of oligonucleotide distance distributions in the Human Genome

Tavares A.H., Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Bastos C.A.C.

ICPRAM 2015 - 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Proceedings, 2, 256–263 DOI Scopus

2014

1 publication

Conference Paper

Exceptional single strand DNA word symmetry: Universal law?

Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Bastos C.A.C.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 294(AISC), 137–143 DOI Scopus

2013

6 publications

Journal Article

A genomic distance for assembly comparison based on compressed maximal exact matches

Garcia S.P., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Santos S., Pratas D., Afreixo V., Bastos C.A.C., Ferreira P.J.S.G., Pinho A.J.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 10(3), 793–798 DOI Scopus

Journal Article

Analysis of Word Symmetries in Human Genomes Using Next-Generation Sequencing Data

Afreixo V., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Garcia S.P.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 222, 7–13 DOI Scopus

Journal Article Open Access

Inter-STOP symbol distances for the identification of coding regions.

Bastos C.A., Afreixo V., Garcia S.P., Pinho A.J.

Journal of integrative bioinformatics, 10(3), 230 DOI Scopus

Journal Article Open Access

Segmentation of DNA into Coding and Noncoding Regions Based on Inter-STOP Symbols Distances

Bastos C.A.C., Afreixo V., Garcia S.P., Pinho A.J.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 222, 23–28 DOI Scopus

Journal Article Open Access

The breakdown of Symmetry in Word Pairs in 1,092 Human Genomes

Afreixo V., Garcia S.P., Rodrigues J.M.O.S.

Jurnal Teknologi (Sciences and Engineering), 63(3), 1–8 DOI Scopus

Journal Article

The breakdown of the word symmetry in the human genome

Afreixo V., Bastos C.A.C., Garcia S.P., Rodrigues J.M.O.S., Pinho A.J., Ferreira P.J.S.G.

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 335, 153–159 DOI Scopus