Hello, Genes and many other genomic features are strand-specific.
For help interpreting the genomic coordinates used by the UCSC Browser (mySQL tables, flat files), please see this help page: http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Coordinate_Transforms For general biology questions about genomics, this external wiki page seems like a good starting place with many links out to other sources of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics#Gene_expression Jennifer Jackson UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group Liming Tao wrote: > i am fresh genetic student,could u please tell me why not use strand + only? > > Thank you > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
