Does anyone have some general info on non-coding RNAs?

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Roop Omar Popular answer

Try skimming through the following papers, are actually very good resources.

http://compbio.mit.edu/publications/79_Washietl_WileyRNA_12.pdf

http://www.genetics.org/content/193/3/651.full.pdf+html

http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v10/n3/abs/nrg2521.html

http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v12/n12/pdf/nrg3074.pdf

http://jcs.biologists.org/content/123/11/1825.full.pdf

And ofcourse, you can always find the basics on wikipedia. This pageactually also gives links to quite a few interesting reads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-coding_RNA

Roop Omar