Recent advances in the field of RNA research have provided compelling evidence implicating long non-coding RNA molecules in many diverse and substantial biological processes that include transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression, genomic imprinting, modulation of protein activity and subcellular localization and cellular structural maintenance. While long non-coding...

The microRNAs are a group of 20 nucleotides-long non-coding RNAs. By binding to the 3'UTR region of target mRNA, microRNAs can perform extensive actions mediating gene expression at post-trancriptional stages. It makes microRNAs serve as very crucial regulators in various biological progress including carcinogenesis. Long non-coding RNAs, however, are a subgroup of RNA with the length of 200 nu...

Thermodynamic RNA secondary structure prediction is an important recipe for the latest generation of functional non-coding RNA finding tools. However, the predicted energy is not strong enough by itself to distinguish a single functional non-coding RNA from other RNA. Here, we analyze how well an RNA molecule folds into a particular structural class with a restricted folding algorithm called Th...

RNA editing is an important co/post-transcriptional molecular process able to modify RNAs by nucleotide insertions/deletions or substitutions. In human, the most common RNA editing event involves the deamination of adenosine (A) into inosine (I) through the adenosine deaminase acting on RNA proteins. Although A-to-I editing can occur in both coding and non-coding RNAs, recent findings, based on...

Crohn disease (CD) is a type of inflammatory bowel that causes inflammation in the digestive tract. Cases CD are increasing worldwide, calling for more research to elucidate pathogenesis CD. For this purpose, usage RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) technique increasingly appreciated, as it captures RNA expression patterns at particular time point high-throughput manner. Although many RNA-seq datasets ge...