transcriptome

English

Etymology

From transcript +‎ -ome.

Noun

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^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• macrotranscriptome
• microtranscriptome
• neurotranscriptome
• retrotranscriptome
• transcriptomal
• transcriptomic

Translations

set of messenger RNA molecules

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轉錄組 / 转录组 (zhuǎnlùzǔ)

• Finnish: transkriptomi
• French: transcriptome (fr) m
• German: Transkriptom n
• Greek: μεταγράφωμα n (metagráfoma)
• Polish: transkryptom (pl) m
• Portuguese: transcriptoma m

See also

• translatome

Anagrams

• micropatterns