Original article LncReg: a reference resource for lncRNA- associated regulatory networks

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are critical in the regulation of various biological proc-esses. In recent years, plethora of lncRNAs have been identified in mammalian genomes through different approaches, and the researchers are constantly reporting the regula-tory roles of these lncRNAs, which leads to complexity of literature about particular lncRNAs. Therefore, for the convenience of the researchers, we collected regulatory rela-tionships of the lncRNAs and built a database called ‘LncReg’. This database is de-veloped by collecting 1081 validated lncRNA-associated regulatory entries, including 258 non-redundant lncRNAs and 571 non-redundant genes. With regulatory relationships in-formation, LncReg can provide overall perspectives of regulatory networks of lncRNAs and comprehensive data for bioinformatics research, which is useful for understanding the functional roles of lncRNAs