Coding strand

Non-coding strand
Anti-sense strand that does not code for a protein.
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AKA: antisense strand, non-coding strand, template strand
The DNA strand that forms the template for both the transcribed mRNA and the coding DNA strand.
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Coding strand: an ambiguous term intended to refer to one specific strand in a double-stranded gene. See "Sense strand".
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The noncoding strand of the DNA double helix that serves as the template for mRNA synthesis.
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The non-coding strand in double-stranded DNA. The antisense strand serves as the template for mRNA synthesis.
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RNA polymerase does not use the coding strand as a template because a copy of any strand produces a base sequence complementary to the strand which is being copied.
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As the RNA polymerase travels through the strand that is opposite to the coding strand (the cell wants a copy of the coding strand, so it needs to copy that from the DNA that is the opposite of the coding strand), ...
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It is often referred to as the coding strand or the template strand. The other strand (the sense strand) is not used. Notice that the sense strand has the same base sequence as mRNA except that mRNA has U instead of T.
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Additionally, there is a strong correlation between purine excess and coding strand excess, evidenced most remarkably by E. coli and Methanococcus jannaschii, an archaebacterium.
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