Powerful next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, more specifically RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), have been pivotal toward the detection and analysis and hypotheses generation of novel biomolecules, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs) and circular RNAs (circRNAs). Experimental validation of the occurrence ...
Read More »RNA-Seq identifies long non-coding RNAs associated with autism
Genetic studies have identified many risk loci for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) although causal factors in the majority of cases are still unknown. Currently, known ASD risk genes are all protein-coding genes; however, the vast majority of transcripts in humans ...
Read More »Computational prediction of lncRNA-mRNA interactions by integrating tissue specificity in the human transcriptome
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a key role in normal tissue differentiation and cancer development through their tissue-specific expression in the human transcriptome. Recent investigations of macromolecular interactions have shown that tissue-specific lncRNAs form base-pairing interactions with various mRNAs associated ...
Read More »Directional RNA-seq libraries from small samples without pre-amplification for the quantification of lncRNAs
Development of high-throughput sequencing technologies has uncovered the immensity of the long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) world. Divergently transcribed lncRNAs from bidirectional gene promoters, called promoter-associated noncoding RNAs (pancRNAs), account for ~20% of the total number of lncRNAs, and this major ...
Read More »Bioinformatics for Novel Long Intergenic Noncoding RNA (lincRNA) Identification
Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) , which are larger than 200 nucleotides and transcribed from the intergenic regions of protein coding genes, have been shown by accumulating findings to be widely expressed and extensively functional in many cellular processes. Nevertheless, ...
Read More »Evolinc – quickly identify sequence conserved lincRNAs for functional analysis
Long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) are an abundant and functionally diverse class of eukaryotic transcripts. Reported lincRNA repertoires in mammals vary, but are commonly in the thousands to tens of thousands of transcripts, covering ~90% of the genome. In addition ...
Read More »Logic programming to infer complex RNA expression patterns from RNA-seq data
To meet the increasing demand in the field, numerous long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) databases are available. Given many lncRNAs are specifically expressed in certain cell types and/or time-dependent manners, most lncRNA databases fall short of providing such profiles. Researchers at ...
Read More »Long intergenic non-coding RNA expression signature in human breast cancer
Breast cancer is a complex disease, characterized by gene deregulation. There is less systematic investigation of the capacity of long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) as biomarkers associated with breast cancer pathogenesis or several clinicopathological variables including receptor status and patient ...
Read More »RACE-Seq – extension of human lncRNA transcripts by RACE coupled with long-read high-throughput sequencing
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) constitute a large, yet mostly uncharacterized fraction of the mammalian transcriptome. Such characterization requires a comprehensive, high-quality annotation of their gene structure and boundaries, which is currently lacking. Here researchers from the Barcelona Institute of Science ...
Read More »Quantitative gene profiling of long noncoding RNAs with targeted RNA sequencing
The majority of the human genome is differentially expressed across a wide dynamic range to produce a spectrum of protein-coding and noncoding RNAs, generating a transcriptome of unexpected scale and complexity. These features present a challenge for gene-expression profiling with ...
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