text: user173: I have a computer engineering background, not biology.
  I started working on a bioinformatics project recently, which involves de-novo assembly. I came to know the terms Transcriptome and Genome, but I cannot identify the difference between these two.
  I know a transcriptome is the set of all messenger RNA molecules in a cell, but am not sure how this is different from a genome.
  
  user174: They are two very different things. Your genome is a large section of about 3 billion DNA nucleotide bases. It has no concept of exon and introns.
  Transcriptome is a study of transcriptions. You have introns and exons. We can now talk about alternative splicing and gene expression.
  You can think your genome is like a cooking recipe. While it's good to have a good recipe, you can't do much if you don't use it for cooking. 
  
  user23: In brief, the  “genome”  is the collection of all  DNA  present  in  the  nucleus  and  the  mitochondria of a  somatic  cell. The initial product of genome expression is the “transcriptome”, a collection of RNA molecules derived from those genes.
  
original_text: 173: <p>I have a computer engineering background, not biology.</p>
  
  <p>I started working on a bioinformatics project recently, which involves <em>de-novo</em> assembly. I came to know the terms <code>Transcriptome</code> and <code>Genome</code>, but I cannot identify the difference between these two.</p>
  
  <p>I know a transcriptome is the set of all messenger RNA molecules in a cell, but am not sure how this is different from a genome.</p>
   174: <p>They are two very different things. Your genome is a large section of about 3 billion DNA nucleotide bases. It has no concept of exon and introns.</p>
  
  <p>Transcriptome is a study of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_(biology)" rel="noreferrer">transcriptions</a>. You have introns and exons. We can now talk about alternative splicing and gene expression.</p>
  
  <p>You can think your genome is like a cooking recipe. While it's good to have a good recipe, you can't do much if you don't use it for cooking. </p>
   23: <p>In brief, the  “genome”  is the collection of all  DNA  present  in  the  nucleus  and  the  mitochondria of a  somatic  cell. The initial product of genome expression is the “transcriptome”, a collection of RNA molecules derived from those genes.</p>
  