Hi Lionel Didn't see a reply to you, sorry.
Anyhow, dreg will search the sequence as given. This is taken as the sense/coding/+ strand. If you specify -sreverse (which is available to any applications that read sequences) it will I think search the reverse complement of that sequence instead. Cheers Jon > Hello fellow EMBOSS fans, > > I am using the dreg program to search the human genome for my favorite > motif. I was unable to find any information regarding the meaning of > the strand information in the output. Does dreg search both strands or > will it always return "+" as the strand designation of the hits that it > finds? > > Thanks for your continued support and development of this fantastic tool! > > Sincerely, > Lionel "Lee" Brooks 3rd > Dartmouth Genetics Grad Student > _______________________________________________ > EMBOSS mailing list > EMBOSS@lists.open-bio.org > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss > _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list EMBOSS@lists.open-bio.org http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss