“…For a long time, there has been widespread recognition that ncRNA are unable to encode proteins ( Guttman et al, 2013 ). However, with the development of deep ribosome profiling sequencing (Ribo-Seq) technology, mass spectrometry and algorithms including fragment length organization similarity score (FLOSS; Ingolia et al, 2014 ), ORF-RATER ( Fields et al, 2015 ), and Ribo taper ( Calviello et al, 2016 ), a subset of ncRNA have been identified to be able to encode peptides (<100 amino acids) or proteins, such as HOXB-AS3 ( Huang et al, 2017 ), SPAR ( Matsumoto et al, 2017 ), FBXW7-185aa ( Yang et al, 2018 ), SHPRH-146aa ( Zhang et al, 2018 ), miPEP-200a, and miPEP-200b ( Fang et al, 2017 ; Figure 1 ). HOXB-AS3 and SPAR are encoded by long non-coding RNA (lncRNA).…”