transcriptome

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From transcript +‎ -ome.

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transcriptome (plural transcriptomes)

  1. (biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of RNA molecules (transcripts) produced in a cell or a population of cells.
    • 2017 August 1, Douglas Fox, “Aliens in our midst”, in Aeon‎:
      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.

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