diff --git a/packages/core/BaseFeatureWidget/BaseFeatureDetail.tsx b/packages/core/BaseFeatureWidget/BaseFeatureDetail.tsx
index 98f9d5872f4..e43a4395f21 100644
--- a/packages/core/BaseFeatureWidget/BaseFeatureDetail.tsx
+++ b/packages/core/BaseFeatureWidget/BaseFeatureDetail.tsx
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import {
   getSession,
   defaultCodonTable,
   generateCodonTable,
+  revcom,
 } from '../util'
 import { Feature } from '../util/simpleFeature'
 import SanitizedHTML from '../ui/SanitizedHTML'
@@ -214,6 +215,17 @@ interface BaseProps extends BaseCardProps {
   model?: any
 }
 
+function stitch(subfeats: any, feature: any, sequence: string) {
+  let chunks = subfeats.map((sub: any) => {
+    const chunk = sequence.slice(sub.start, sub.end)
+    return feature.strand === -1 ? revcom(chunk) : chunk
+  })
+  if (feature.strand === -1) {
+    chunks = chunks.reverse()
+  }
+  return chunks.join('')
+}
+
 // display the stitched-together sequence of a gene's CDS, cDNA, or protein
 // sequence. this is a best effort and weird genomic phenomena could lead these
 // to not be 100% accurate
@@ -262,6 +274,7 @@ function SequenceFeatureDetails(props: BaseProps) {
 
   const text: React.ReactNode[] = []
   if (sequence && feature) {
+    const { strand } = feature
     const children = feature.subfeatures
       .sort((a: any, b: any) => a.start - b.start)
       .map((sub: any) => {
@@ -280,47 +293,46 @@ function SequenceFeatureDetails(props: BaseProps) {
     const exons = children.filter((sub: any) => sub.type === 'exon')
 
     if (mode === 'cds') {
-      cds.forEach((sub: any) => {
+      text.push(
+        <div
+          key={`cds-${feature.start}-${feature.end}`}
+          style={{
+            display: 'inline',
+            backgroundColor: cdsColor,
+          }}
+        >
+          {stitch(cds, feature, sequence)}
+        </div>,
+      )
+    } else if (mode === 'cdna') {
+      // if we have CDS, it is a real gene, color the difference between the
+      // start and end of the CDS as UTR and the rest as CDS
+      if (cds.length) {
         text.push(
           <div
-            key={`${sub.start}-${sub.end}`}
+            key="5prime_utr"
             style={{
               display: 'inline',
-              backgroundColor: cdsColor,
+              backgroundColor: utrColor,
             }}
           >
-            {sequence.slice(sub.start, sub.end)}
+            {feature.strand === -1
+              ? revcom(sequence.slice(cds[cds.length - 1].end))
+              : sequence.slice(0, cds[0].start)}
           </div>,
         )
-      })
-    } else if (mode === 'cdna') {
-      // if we have CDS, it is a real gene, color the difference between the
-      // start and end of the CDS as UTR and the rest as CDS
-      if (cds.length) {
+
         text.push(
           <div
-            key="5prime_utr"
+            key={`cds-${feature.start}-${feature.end}`}
             style={{
               display: 'inline',
-              backgroundColor: utrColor,
+              backgroundColor: cdsColor,
             }}
           >
-            {sequence.slice(0, cds[0].start)}
+            {stitch(cds, feature, sequence)}
           </div>,
         )
-        cds.forEach((sub: any) => {
-          text.push(
-            <div
-              key={`${sub.start}-${sub.end}`}
-              style={{
-                display: 'inline',
-                backgroundColor: cdsColor,
-              }}
-            >
-              {sequence.slice(sub.start, sub.end)}
-            </div>,
-          )
-        })
 
         text.push(
           <div
@@ -330,31 +342,28 @@ function SequenceFeatureDetails(props: BaseProps) {
               backgroundColor: utrColor,
             }}
           >
-            {sequence.slice(cds[cds.length - 1].end)}
+            {feature.strand === -1
+              ? revcom(sequence.slice(0, cds[0].start))
+              : sequence.slice(cds[cds.length - 1].end)}
           </div>,
         )
       }
       // no CDS, probably a pseudogene, color whole thing as "UTR"
       else {
-        exons.forEach((sub: any) => {
-          text.push(
-            <div
-              key={`${sub.start}-${sub.end}`}
-              style={{
-                display: 'inline',
-                backgroundColor: utrColor,
-              }}
-            >
-              {sequence.slice(sub.start, sub.end)}
-            </div>,
-          )
-        })
+        text.push(
+          <div
+            key={`cdna-${feature.start}-${feature.end}`}
+            style={{
+              display: 'inline',
+              backgroundColor: utrColor,
+            }}
+          >
+            {stitch(exons, feature, sequence)}
+          </div>,
+        )
       }
     } else if (mode === 'protein') {
-      let str = ''
-      cds.forEach((sub: any) => {
-        str += sequence.slice(sub.start, sub.end)
-      })
+      const str = stitch(cds, feature, sequence)
       let protein = ''
       for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i += 3) {
         protein += codonTable[str.slice(i, i + 3)]