Sara Pinto Garcia

Group	Signal Processing Laboratory
Transverse activity	Transverse Activity on Innovative Biomedical Technologies
Status	Integrated member
Country	Portugal
Students
Projects	COMODIE DNA-Profiles
Events	RECOMB 2010
Proposals
Personal page	http://www.ieeta.pt/~spgarcia/

Publications

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas, Sara Pinto Garcia. GReEn: a tool for efficient compression of genome resequencing data. Nucleic Acids Research, December 2011 (IF 2010: 7.836)
• Sara Pinto Garcia, Armando J. Pinho. Minimal Absent Words in Four Human Genome Assemblies. PLoS ONE, vol. 6, no. 12, p. e29344, December 2011 (IF 2010: 4.411)
• Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Genome analysis with distance to the nearest dissimilar nucleotide. Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 275, no. 1, p. 52-58, April 2011 (IF 2010: 2.371)
• Sara Pinto Garcia, Armando J. Pinho, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Minimal absent words in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. PLoS ONE, vol. 6, no. 1, p. e16065, January 2011 (IF 2010: 4.411)
• Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Genome analysis with inter-nucleotide distances. Bioinformatics, vol. 25, no. 23, p. 3064-3070, December 2009 (IF 2009: 4.926) (IF 2010: 4.877)
• Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Sara Pinto Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues. On finding minimal absent words. BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 137, May 2009 (IF 2009: 3.428) (IF 2010: 3.028)

Other articles in journals

• Carlos A C Bastos, Vera Afreixo, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Inter-nucleotide distances in the human genome: an analysis of the whole-genome and protein-coding distributions. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 3, 2011

Articles in proceedings of conferences

• Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia. Computation of the normalized compression distance of DNA sequences using a mixture of finite-context models. Bioinformatics 2012: International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, Vilamoura, Portugal, February 2012
• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas, Sara Pinto Garcia. Complexity Profiles of DNA Sequences Using Finite-Context Models. Information Quality in e-Health: 7th Conference of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2011, Graz, Austria, vol. LNCS 7058, p. 75-82, November 2011
• Diogo Pratas, Sara Pinto Garcia, Armando J. Pinho. Analysis of patterns in S. pombe genome through compression-based complexity profiles. Proc. of the 17th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2011, Porto, Portugal, October 2011
• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Sara Pinto Garcia. Symbolic to numerical conversion of DNA sequences using finite-context models. Proc. of the European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2011, Barcelona, Spain, p. 2024-2028, August 2011
• Carlos A C Bastos, Vera Afreixo, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Distances between dinucleotides in the human genome. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, PACBB 2011, Salamanca, Spain, vol. 93, p. 205-211, April 2011
• Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, António J. R. Neves, João M. O. S. Rodrigues. Exploring homology using the concept of three-state entropy vector. Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, 5th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2010, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, vol. LNBI 6282, p. 161-170, September 2010
• Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, Paulo J S G Ferreira. DNA inter-nucleotide distances. Challenges in Bioinformatics, JB-2009, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 1, November 2009
• Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Sara Pinto Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues. The definition of minimal absent words and the algorithmic problem of finding them. Challenges in Bioinformatics, JB-2009, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 137-140, November 2009