Patent ID: 9708653
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: C12N,C12Q,G16B

Claim:
1. A method for identifying repeating sequences in a target nucleic acid comprising repeating sequences and non-repeating sequences, the method comprising the steps of sequencing the target nucleic acid to obtain sequence data; digitizing, with one or more processors, the sequence data; applying, with the one or more processors, wavelet packet decomposition (WPD) to decompose the digitized sequence data into non-periodic signal data and periodic signal data comprising coefficients; classifying, with the one or more processors, the non-periodic signal data into a non-repeat bin and the periodic signal data into a repeat bin based upon the coefficients; and identifying the repeating sequences in the target nucleic acid by matching, with the one or more processors, only the coefficients from the periodic signal data in the repeat bin to reference coefficients generated from WPD of a reference sequence.