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Our current knowledge of how different environmental treatments modulate gene regulation and bring about physiology adaptations is limited, and hence it is difficult to determine the mechanisms that lead to their effects. Patterns of gene expression, revealed using technologies such as microarrays or RNA-seq, can provide useful biomarkers of different gene regulatory states indicative of a bacterium\u2019s physiological status. It is desirable to have only a few key genes as the biomarkers to reduce the costs of determining the transcriptional state by opening the way for methods such as quantitative RT-PCR and amplicon panels. In this paper, we used unsupervised machine learning to construct a transcriptional landscape model from condition-dependent transcriptome data, from which we have identified 10 clusters of samples with differentiated gene expression profiles and linked to different cellular growth states. Using an iterative feature elimination strategy, we identified a minimal panel of 10 biomarker genes that achieved 100% cross-validation accuracy in predicting the cluster assignment. Moreover, we designed and evaluated a variety of data processing strategies to ensure our methods were able to generate meaningful transcriptional landscape models, capturing relevant biological processes. 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