Pedro M.M. Araújo

Pedro M.M. Araújo

PhD Student in Health Sciences

University of Minho, Portugal

Hi, I’m Pedro!

Currently I’m a PhD Student at University of Minho (Portugal), developing my work at Life and Health Sciences Research Institute. My research focus on uncovering and understanding new trends in the HIV-1 epidemic in Portugal. With a great focus on molecular Data Analysis and Tool Building. I’m also part of Data Science Portugal, a non-profit organization focused on community building and knowledge sharing in the fields of Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Previously (Master Thesis), I have worked on computer-aided Drug Design of potential Protein Kinase inhibitors.

Interests

  • Bioinformatics
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language processing
  • Community Building

Education

  • MSc in Biochemestry, 2014

    University of Porto, Portugal

  • BSc in Genetics and Biotecnology, 2012

    University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Publications

All publication

SNAPPy: A snakemake pipeline for scalable HIV-1 subtyping by phylogenetic pairing.

Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) genome sequencing is routinely done for drug resistance monitoring in hospitals worldwide. …
Pedro M M Araújo, Joana S Martins, Nuno S Osório
DOI

Characterization of a large cluster of HIV-1 A1 infections detected in Portugal and connected to several Western European countries.

HIV-1 subtypes associate with differences in transmission and disease progression. Thus, the existence of geographic hotspots of …
Pedro M M Araujo, Alexandre Carvalho, Marta Pingarilho, Ana B Abecasis, Nuno S Osorio
DOI

Theoretical analysis of the binding of potential inhibitors to protein kinases MK2 and MK3.

MK2 (or MAPKAPK2) was already known for its role in the inflammatory response, however recent studies indicate the involvement of this …
Pedro M M Araujo, Luis Pinto da Silva, Joaquim C G Esteves da Silva

Projects

HIV 1 Recombination Web App

Toy example of an web app to classify if HIV-1 genomes are recombinant or not. Code at: https://github.com/PMMAraujo/HIV-1_recombination_classifier

Online Retail II - recommendation systems

Project about preprocessing ecommerce data and creation of recommendation sytems

SNAPPy

SNAPPy is a Snakemake pipeline for HIV-1 subtyping by phylogenetic pairing

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