An efficient analysis technique for DNA sequences using multiwindow Gabor representations

In this paper, we develop a new technique to store, search and compare DNA sequences. We utilize the concept of multiwindow Gabor representations and use these functions to handle the nucleotide sequences. We show specifically, that using multiwindow Gabor representations, it is possible to represent the sequences efficiently using very few terms. Further, we develop a search technique based on the correlation between the multiwindow coefficients of the query sequence and sequences in the database and show that our method has a smaller computational complexity. Most importantly, we show that using multiwindow Gabor representations, we can examine the periodicity properties of sequences very easily, without need to resorting to the string matching methods, the global Fourier techniques or the statistical correlation techniques.