Definition of + and - strands for human genome
Hi.
As you know, UCSC genome browser named two DNA strands of human genome "+" and "-" strands. I would like to know how one of the two DNA strands was defined as a + strand and the other was defined as a - strand.
Could you tell me the definitions of + and - strands?
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Check out this Wikipedia entry (the first result in googling “plus strand”): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_(molecular_biology)
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