# `get_rna_description` Return a literature-derived summary of an RNA's known biological role. The summary comes from RNAcentral's literature-summary pipeline, which aggregates published mentions of the RNA into a short natural-language description. ## Arguments | Name | Type | Required | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `rna_id` | `str` | yes | An RNA identifier recognised by RNAcentral (e.g. `"mmu-mir-191"`, a miRBase name, or a URS ID). | ## Returns A plain-text description. If no summary is available for the given ID, the tool returns a message indicating so rather than raising. ## Good to know - Summaries exist primarily for well-studied RNAs (miRNAs, lncRNAs with named entries, etc.). Novel or poorly-annotated RNAs often have no summary. - The summary is generated from the literature — treat it as a pointer to primary sources, not as a definitive statement.