Tag Archives: long noncoding RNA

Researchers utilized transcriptomic sequencing data to systematically observe and identify lncRNAs and their potential functions from 5034 The Cancer Genome Atlas RNA-seq datasets covering 24 cancers...

The discovery of a huge number of long non-protein coding RNAs, aka lncRNAs, in the mammalian genome was a major surprise of the recent large-scale genomics projects. An international team including a bioinformatician from the Research Center...

Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have made a potentially exciting discovery by jumping into the abyss of the dark side of the genome. Once dismissed as “junk DNA,” roughly 75 percent of the human genome do not code for ...

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are noncoding RNAs with transcript length more than 200 nucleotides. Although poorly conserved, lncRNAs are expressed across diverse species, including plants and animals, and are known to be involved in...

Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) have risen to prominence in cancer biology as new biomarkers of disease. Those lincRNAs transcribed from active cis-regulatory elements (enhancers) have provided mechanistic insight into cis-acting...

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 ...

Natural antisense transcripts, originally considered as transcriptional noises arising from so-called “junk DNA”, are recently recognized as important modulators for gene regulation. They are prevalent in nearly all realms of life and have been found to modulate gene expression positively ...

Bioinformatics methods for various RNA-seq data analyses are in fast evolution with the improvement of sequencing technologies. However, many challenges still exist in how to efficiently process the RNA-seq data to obtain accurate and comprehensive results. Mapping RNA-seq reads to ...

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 ...

RNA-sequencing is a revolutionary tool to follow differential expression after treatment with cancer chemopreventive agents. It allows a real genome-wide screening independent of prior assumptions and is well suited for analyzing coding but also long noncoding RNAs. It still consents ...