As shown in Fig. 6a and Table 1, all three lncRNA-mRNA pairs, including lncRNA XLOC-022175 vs CXCL2 (co-upregulated), XLOC-019295 vs IFI6 (co-upregulated), and XLOC-017089 vs CD163 (co-downregulated) exhibited significant changes after virus infection, which coincided with the predicted correlation networks. Here, CD163 is linked to viral infectious disease.