Vocabulary/Jargon of Genomics and Bioinformatics

1. Wikipedia contains very useful descriptions of many genomics terms
• for example check out Wikipedia's definition for transcriptome
  
2. Genomics Glossary from NCBI

In your lab notebook please contribute that you think are important, and your definitions of them. We will compile all of these and add them to this vocabulary page.

Example:

Transcriptome: The entire set of expressed genes in a cell/tissue/organ/organism at a snapshot in time. One way to study the transcriptome is to extract RNA from the cell/organism, convert it to cDNA, and sequence.