“…Starting from only a fasta file for a given chromosome, RepeatOBserver produces Fourier spectra showing locations of tandem repeats (including their length and how perfectly they repeat). Fourier transforms and wavelet analyses have previously been used to study DNA, including exploring DNA periodicity (Elloumi et al ., 2012; Nagai et al ., 2001, 2020), DNA palindromes (Qi et al ., 2012), sequence comparison (MAFFT) (Katoh et al ., 2002), sequence evolution (Machado, 2013), exon/intron identification (Haimovich et al ., 2006), visualization of regular features (Dodin et al ., 2000) and even tandem repeats (Sharma et al ., 2004; Brodzik, 2007; Buchner and Janjarasjitt, 2003; Yadav et al ., 2022). DNA sequence variations in Fourier transforms have previously been shown to have biological importance (Haimovich et al ., 2006) and are known to show periodicity and tandem repeats (Elloumi et al ., 2012; Sharma et al ., 2004; Brodzik, 2007; Buchner and Janjarasjitt, 2003; Yadav et al ., 2022).…”