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Transcriptome vs Metatranscriptomics - What's the difference?

transcriptome | metatranscriptomics |

As nouns the difference between transcriptome and metatranscriptomics

is that transcriptome is (biochemistry|genetics) the complete set of messenger rna molecules (transcripts) produced in a cell or a population of cells while metatranscriptomics is (genetics|ecology) a branch of transcriptomics that studies, and correlates, the transcriptomes of a group of interacting organisms or species.

transcriptome

English

(wikipedia transcriptome)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of messenger RNA molecules (transcripts) produced in a cell or a population of cells.

    • See also

    * translatome

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    metatranscriptomics

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (genetics, ecology) A branch of transcriptomics that studies, and correlates, the transcriptomes of a group of interacting organisms or species

    • Related terms

    *metatranscriptome *metatranscriptomic