transcriptome
noun
the entire set of RNA transcripts in an organism or in a sample of its tissues or cells.
transcriptomes
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pluralof transcriptome.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Working with the Museum's Frick Curator of Fossil Mammals John Flynn, Calamari focused on sequencing transcriptomes, the genes expressed in a tissue at a specific time, for headgear.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024
Understanding how a plant creates such compounds usually begins with analyzing plant transcriptomes to identify up to hundreds of genes that could potentially code for the enzymes that work together to facilitate production.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023
Based on the degree of similarity in the transcriptomes, they arranged each species on a family tree and used the numbers of genetic differences between species as a “molecular clock” to determine when each originated.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 24, 2022
In BICCN’s data, cells grouped according to their transcriptomes tend to share other features, such as location, shape, and electrical activity.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 6, 2021
Because it generates information that is readable by sequencing, it can assign multiple types of ’omics data — proteomes, transcriptomes, even disease-causing genetic mutations — to each cell, Kim says.
From Nature ● May 21, 2018
