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Many functions of RNA strands that do not code for proteins are still to be deciphered. Methods to classify different groups of non-coding RNA increasingly use deep learning, but the landscape is diverse and methods need to be categorized and benchmarked to move forward. The authors take a close look at six state-of-the-art deep learning non-coding RNA classifiers and compare their performance and architecture.