| 5′ capping | a 7-methyl guanosine cap at the 5′ end |
| ALS | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| APA | Alternative polyadenylation |
| APEX-RIP | The combination of proximity ligation with crosslinking of protein-RNA interactions by formaldehyde |
| CAP-seq | Chromophore-assisted proximity labeling and sequencing |
| CIMS | Crosslink-induced mutation sites |
| CITS | Crosslink-induced truncation sites |
| CLIP | Crosslinking and immunoprecipitation |
| CLIP-seq | High-throughput sequencing of the cDNA library generated by CLIP |
| CTD | C-terminal domain of RNAP II |
| eCLIP | Enhanced CLIP |
| ENCODE | The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements |
| FA-crosslinking | Formaldehyde-crosslinking |
| hnRNPs | Heterogeneous ribonuclear proteins |
| IP | Immunoprecipitation |
| irCLIP | Infrared-CLIP |
| KIN-CLIP | Kinetic crosslinking and immunoprecipitation |
| m6A | Methyl adenosine 6 |
| MW | Molecular weight |
| NET-seq | Native elongating transcript sequencing |
| PL | Proximity labeling |
| PrismNet | Protein-RNA Interaction by Structure-informed Modeling using deep neural NETwork |
| Proximity-CLIP | The combination of proximity ligation with crosslinking of protein–RNA interactions by UV |
| RBP | RNA-binding proteins |
| RIP | RNA immunoprecipitation |
| RNAP II | RNA polymerase II |
| scRNA-seq | Single-cell RNA-sequencing |
| SDS-PAGE | SDS-polyacrylamide gel |
| SRSFs | Serine/arginine-rich splicing factors |
| STAMP | Surveying Targets by APOBEC Mediated Profiling |
| TEX | Terminator 5′-phosphate-dependent exonuclease |
| TGRIT | Thermostable group II intron reverse transcriptase |
| TRIBE | Targets of RNA-binding proteins identified by editing |
| tRIP | Target RNA immunoprecipitation |