rna - Majority of transcripts are from sense strand?

I am wondering whether majority of transcripts are transcribed from the 5'->3' strand? Because I encounter a lot of expressions like "anti-sense transcripts". Could anybody help clarify this? Thanks.

Answer

From my understanding sense and anti sense is contextual. If you are looking at a gene from 5'->3'(which is convention) that strand is the sense strand and the complement to the gene is the anti sense strand.

However further along the DNA there could be a gene on the 'original' anti sense strand, if you are discussing this new gene, there is a new context and it is now on the sense strand (oriented 5'->3'), and it's complement on the anti sense strand.

I hope that's clear.