The phrase "a control strand" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, genetics, or technology, where it refers to a strand that regulates or influences a process.
Example: "In the experiment, we used a control strand to ensure that our results were accurate and reliable."
Alternatives: "a regulatory strand" or "a guiding strand".
A comparison with the control strand suggests that ∼4% of these events were actually due to incidental RET.
A control leading strand reaction using only ϕ29 Pol is shown in lanes 10 12.
Briefly, we designed an arch-structure DNA probe to specifically control strand displacement reaction and subsequent enzyme-aided amplification.
The SVS and FCU samples were tested for the presence of CT and Neisseria gonorrhea (NG) by Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAAT) with internal inhibition control: Strand Displacement Amplification assay (SDA) of Becton Dickinson Probe Tec ET system, Maryland, USA.
Second, a series of control strands was designed to model the triplex species induced by the T=T, in which the terminal 5′ or 3′ GGG was converted to a 5′ or 3′ TTT, respectively.
The first 20 nucleic acids of each sequence became an unmatched control sequence, with the requirement that control strands contain no characters other than A/a, C/c, T/t, or G/g.
Some examples of such systems are a "molecular tweezers" design that has an open and a closed state, a device that could switch from a paranemic-crossover (PX) conformation to a double-junction (JX2) conformation, undergoing rotational motion in the process, and a two-dimensional array that could dynamically expand and contract in response to control strands.
One strategy is to control the motion of the walker along the track using control strands that need to be manually added in sequence.
Subsequent systems could change states based upon the presence of control strands, allowing multiple devices to be independently operated in solution.
