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Editorial
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In recent years, there has been a fundamental shift in our understanding of the role of RNA molecules in cellular biology. Long ignored as junk DNA, the overwhelming majority of eukaryotic non-protein-coding sequence has been shown by new technologies such as high-throughput transcriptomics [1], large-scale cDNA sequencing [2] and tiling arrays [3], to
HOW MUCH OF THE EUKARYOTIC TRANSCRIPTOME IS FUNCTIONAL?
HOW MANY ncRNA GENES?
WHAT FUNCTIONS DOES RNA PERFORM IN THE CELL?