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Although research has focused on determining the efficacy of gallic acid against various types of human cancer cells, the molecular mechanisms governing the anti-cancer properties of gallic acid remain largely unclear, and a transcriptomic study of gallic acid-induced cancer cell death has rarely been reported. Therefore, we applied time-course bulk RNA-sequencing to elucidate the molecular signature of gallic acid-induced cell death in human cervical cancer HeLa cells, as this is a widely used in vitro model in the field. Our RNA-sequencing dataset covers the early (2nd hour), middle (4th, 6th hour), and late (9th hour) stages of the cell death process after exposure of HeLa cells to gallic acid, and the untreated (0th hour) cells served as controls. Differential expression of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) was identified at each time point in the dataset. 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