Table 1 Watson- and Crick-strand definitions
From: The multiple personalities of Watson and Crick strands
Definition | Watson | Crick |
|---|---|---|
Original | cytosine-poor | cytosine-rich |
Compositional | pyrimidine-rich | purine-rich |
Transcriptional | antisense | sense |
Replicational | lagging | leading |
Arbitrary | this | that |
Database | top/plus | bottom/minus |
5' to 3' | left to right (top or left-hand) | right to left (bottom or right-hand) |