Transcriptome Profiling Progress and Prospects assists readers in assessing and interpreting a large number of genes up to and including an entire genome. It provides key insights into the latest tools and techniques used in transcriptomics and its relevant topics which can reveal a global snapshot of the complete RNA component of a cell at a given time. This snapshot in turn enables the distinction between different cell types different disease states and different time points during development. Transcriptome analysis has been a key area of biological inquiry for decades. The nextgeneration sequencing technologies have revolutionized transcriptomics by providing opportunities for multidimensional examinations of cellular transcriptomes in which highthroughput expression data are obtained at a singlebase resolution. Transcriptome analysis has evolved from the detection of single RNA molecules to largescale gene expression profiling and genome annotation initiatives. Written by a team of global experts key topics in Transcriptome Profiling include transcriptome characterization expression analysis of transcripts transcriptome and gene regulation transcriptome profiling and human health medicinal plants transcriptomics transcriptomics and genetic engineering transcriptomics in agriculture and phylotranscriptomics. Presents recent development in the tools and techniques in transcriptomic characterization Integrates expression analysis of transcripts and gene regulation Includes the application of transcriptomics in human health genetic engineering and agriculture