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Table 1 List of symbols

From: Novel methodologies for spectral classification of exon and intron sequences

Symbol

Description

Symbol

Description

C

Cytosine

G

Guanine

A

Adenine

T

Thymine

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid

OG

Organism

DSP

Digital signal processing

GSP

Genomic signal processing

DFT

Discrete Fourier transform

FFT

Fast Fourier transform

SL

Sequence length (bases)

WL

Window length (bases)

WRS

Window right-shift (bases)

NW

Number of windows

CDP3

Cumulative distribution period-3

CCDP3

Complementary CDP3

PSV

Power spectral value

P 3

Period-3 power spectral value

T m

Mid threshold value

T p

Proportional threshold value

T c

Cumulative distribution threshold value

T 4

Fixed threshold value (= 4.0)

T w

Winner threshold value

T i

Interpolated winner threshold value

meanP 3e

Mean of the period-3 values obtained from specified exon sequences

sdP 3e

Standard deviation of the period-3 values obtained from specified exon sequences

meanP 3i

Mean of the period-3 values obtained from specified intron sequences

sdP 3i

Standard deviation of the period-3 values obtained from specified intron sequences

  1. Note: T m (P3), T p (P3), T c (P3), T w (P3), T i (P3) are threshold values computed from P3.