Genes naming convention

The standard printing convention uptakes samples from the upper left comer to the right lower comer of the microplate designated as Al to Xn (where letter and number represent row and column respectively). The electronic file that contains all of the information pertinent to each microarray spot is known as a content map. Content maps include microplate location, microarray number, sequence information, GenBank accession number, gene names and other important data, as well as normalized intensity values obtained through quantitation. 

Type Conventional names Gene symbol (human) TTX sensitivity Primary tissues... 

Similar conventions exist for the naming of eukaryotic genes, although the exact form of the abbreviations may vary with the species and no single convention applies to all eukaryotic systems. 

Coding strand, non-codogenie stramk by convention (JCBN/NC-IUB Newsletter, 1989, reproduced in Biochemical Nomenclature Related Documents -A Compendium , 2nd Edition 1992), the strand of a double-stranded stretch of DNA that has the same nucleotide sequence as that of the RNA transcript (e.g. mRNA) derived from that double-stranded DNA (save that T is in the place of U). It is therefore the DNA strand that does not act as the template for the RNA transcript and could thus be called the non-template strand. Alternative, but in the opinion of the 1989 JCBN/NC-IUB Newsletter, less preferable names are sense strand and transcribing strand . See Nomenclalural conventions concerned with gene transcription. 

Non-sense strand an alternative name for the Non-coding strand (see) of double-stranded DNA, which, by convention, has the complementary nucleotide sequence to that of the RNA transcript (e.g. mRNA) derived from that double-stranded DNA (save that T is in the place of U). See Nomenclatural conventions concerned with gene transcription. 

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