Abstract
Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) are generally long transcripts of more than 200 nucleotide (nt) that lack a coding sequence (CDS) or open reading frame (ORF); now the functions of plant lincRNAs remain largely unknown. In this chapter, we describe a computational pipeline to identify the function of lincRNAs based on the relationship between miRNAs and lincRNAs. In our method, lincRNA–mRNA co-expression networks and the ceRNA hypothesis are used to infer the function of lincRNAs as miRNA targets and lincRNAs as miRNA decoys, respectively.
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Li, G., Hao, Z., Fan, C., Wu, X. (2017). Genome-Wide Function Analysis of lincRNAs as miRNA Targets or Decoys in Plant. In: Rajewsky, N., Jurga, S., Barciszewski, J. (eds) Plant Epigenetics. RNA Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55520-1_8
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