Signal processing methods in DNA sequence analysis

[Tom De Medts]

Dear all,

This question might be perfect for those of us with expertise in either 

• electrical / electronic signal processing, and / or
  
• traditional DNA sequence bioinformatics.
  

I recently came across work by a Tunisian researcher (Google Scholar link) who uses signal processing approaches to identification and classification of transposable element sequences in genomes.

Her most recent paper is here - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1746809420303414#!.

REQUEST

However, I do not have access to it, if you do, please share the PDF via email response. Thank you!

While I am familiar with traditional DNA sequence based approaches, lot of the work described here seems like electrical and electronic engineering, with one trick probbaly being converting or transforming DNA sequence to an input type that is compatible with these signal processing tools and approaches.

Here is the specific help I seek for now, in the form of your answers to my TWO QUESTIONS below:

Q1. Could you point me to online resources that explain HOW to transform DNA sequence to data type that is compatible with these new fancy tools?

Q2. Could you point me to open access tools that actually perform the analyses described in this work (I have not been able to peek inside the paper yet)?

My guess is that because most of these analyses seem to be based on signal processing concepts, you might need to really dumb it down for me.

Thanks in advance.

Tom