**RNA-seq – Revealing Biological Insights in Bacteria**

Mariana P. Santana, Flavia F. Aburjaile, Mariana T.D. Parise, Sandeep Tiwari, Artur Silva, Vasco Azevedo and Anne Cybele Pinto

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/61669

#### **Abstract**

New technologies are constantly being released and the improvements therein bring ad‐ vances not only to transcriptome, the focus of this chapter, but also to diverse areas of biological research. Since the announcement and application of the RNA-seq approach, discoveries are being made in this field, but when we consider bacterial species, this progress proceeded a few years behind. However, with the application of RNA-seq de‐ rivative approaches, we can gain biological insights into the bacterial world and aspire to uncover the mysteries involving gene expression, organization and other functional ge‐ nomic features.

**Keywords:** RNA-seq, bacteria, transcriptomics, bioinformatics analysis workflow
