Fig. 3

Genomic features of P. falciparum lncRNAs. a The majority of lncRNAs were antisense-to-gene lncRNAs or antisense-to-UTR lncRNAs, followed by intergenic lncRNAs, UTR-associated lncRNAs and antisense-to-lncRNA lncRNAs. A minority were antisense-to-intron, intronic or sense lncRNAs. b Antisense-to-UTR lncRNAs were most commonly (65%) associated with a 5′ UTR, followed by 32% associated with a 3′ UTR and a small subset (3%) were nestled between 5′ and 3′ UTRs. c LncRNAs and their genome-context subtypes were distributed throughout the genome. d LncRNAs were equally distributed between positive and negative strands and their abundance in chromosomes was relative to chromosome size. e For lncRNAs with an associated transcriptional start site, 70% had evidence of bidirectionality (transcription in both directions in the same location and time point)