transcriptome

The complete set of RNA molecules (transcripts) produced in a cell or a population of cells.

Noun

  1. The complete set of RNA molecules (transcripts) produced in a cell or a population of cells.
    • Within three weeks, he had a partial ‘transcriptome’ of the ctenophore – some 5,000 or 6,000 gene sequences that were actively turned on in the animal’s nerve cells. - 2017 August 1, Douglas Fox, “Aliens in our midst”,...

Origin

Etymology tree English transcript English -ome English transcriptome From transcript + -ome.

Forms

transcriptomes

Related

translatome

Derived

epitranscriptome genotranscriptome holotranscriptome macrotranscriptome metatranscriptome microtranscriptome neurotranscriptome phylotranscriptome retrotranscriptome selenotranscriptome sialotranscriptome subtranscriptome transcriptomal transcriptomewide transcriptomic