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:RNA sequencing has emerged as the premier approach to study bacterial transcriptomes. While the earliest published studies analyzed the data qualitatively, the data are readily digitized and lend themselves to quantitative analysis. High-resolution RNA sequence (RNA-seq) data allows transcriptional features (promoters, terminators, operons, among others) to be pinpointed on any bacterial transcriptome. Once the transcriptome is mapped, the activity of transcriptional features can be quantified. Here we highlight how quantitative transcriptome analysis can reveal biological insights and briefly discuss some of the challenges to be faced by the field of bacterial transcriptomics in the near future.
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Curr Opin Microbioljournal_title
Current opinion in microbiologyauthors
Creecy JP,Conway Tdoi
10.1016/j.mib.2014.11.011subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-02-01 00:00:00pages
133-40eissn
1369-5274issn
1879-0364pii
S1369-5274(14)00178-7journal_volume
23pub_type
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