The process by which the small RNA species identified by cDNA sequencing is considered as regulatory sRNAs, but not fragments of longer mRNA. Introduction: The regulatory sRNAs (small ribonucleic acid) are identified by transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq). sRNAs are usually heterogeneous in their secondary sequence and sequence length as compared to the fragment of longer messenger RNA.

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The process by which the small RNA species identified by cDNA sequencing is considered as regulatory sRNAs, but not fragments of longer mRNA.

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The regulatory sRNAs (small ribonucleic acid) are identified by transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq). sRNAs are usually heterogeneous in their secondary sequence and sequence length as compared to the fragment of longer messenger RNA.

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