The phrase "a given strand of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific element or aspect of a larger topic or concept, often in academic or analytical contexts.
Example: "In this study, we will explore a given strand of research that focuses on the impact of climate change on biodiversity."
Alternatives: "a specific aspect of" or "a particular element of".
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02001.010 The relative mutagenic effect of repairing a given type of lesion on a given strand (top or bottom) was more or less indifferent to its number (up to three), context (i.e., CpG or non-CpG) or position(s) in the MM region.
Annotation is strand specific and is further cleaned according to the number of reads covered on a given strand.
Another classical example of the paradox is the transition from baldness to hirsuteness: no given strand of hair, when moving from a bald head to a hirsute one, can be identified as bringing about the change of condition.
Finally, to detect motifs enriched in all clusters, 3′ UTR sequences from 20 randomly chosen transcripts in each cluster (120 total) were compared against a scrambled background set in MEME (Bailey and Elkan, 1994), with the settings set at a maximum width of 8-nt and a search of the given strand only.
Distribution of motif occurrences was allowed to any number of repetitions in the given strand only.
Orientation of insert DNA post-recombination is dependent on the orientation of the sites prior to the reaction, with sites in the same orientation on a given DNA strand mediating excision of intervening sequence and sites in opposite orientation mediating inversion of intervening sequence.
Plotting composition skew along a sliding window leads to a characteristic pattern in which the origin lies at a point where a given measurement of strand asymmetry switches between positive and negative values.
By performing NHHC/CHHC experiments, we could determine that the β-strands within a given sheet of the amyloid-like fibrils formed by the insulin hexapeptide VEALYL are stacked in an antiparallel manner, whereas the sheet-to-sheet packing arrangement was found to be parallel.
However, the intensity of the forward and reverse strands usually have systematically different intensities, with probes targeting the forward strand of a given genomic region being brighter/darker than the set of probes that target the reverse strand of the same genomic region [ 20].
Analysis of the GC skew ((G − C/G + C)) along one strand of a given bacterial chromosome provides a good indication of the position of the origin and terminus of replication (Grigoriev 1998; Salzberg et al. 1998; for illustration, see supplementary fig. S4 A, Supplementary Material online).
