Transcriptomics is the study of the transcriptome, which is the complete set of RNA transcripts produced by the genome under certain conditions, using high-throughput methods like microarray analysis. The transcriptome includes mRNA, rRNA, tRNA and other non-coding RNA transcribed in a cell or population of cells. Oncogenomics applies transcriptomics to characterize genes associated with cancer. Gene expression analysis focuses on relevant target genes and their location and distances on chromosomes can be determined through sequence mapping. Non-coding RNAs regulate gene expression at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels.