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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001144204-16-128543
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DEFA14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20161019
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20161019
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20161019

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			TRANSGENOMIC INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001043961
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	LABORATORY ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS [3826]
		IRS NUMBER:				911789357
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DEFA14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-36439
		FILM NUMBER:		161941963

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		12325 EMMET ST
		CITY:			OMAHA
		STATE:			NE
		ZIP:			68164
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4027385480

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		12325 EMMET STREET
		CITY:			OMAHA
		STATE:			NE
		ZIP:			68164
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>UNITED STATES</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a)
of the</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>Securities Exchange Act of 1934</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>(Amendment No. )</B></P>

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by the Registrant </FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">x</FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Filed
by a party other than the Registrant </FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">&uml;</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Check the appropriate box:</P>

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Proxy Statement</FONT></TD>
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for Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2))</B></FONT></TD>
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Proxy Statement</FONT></TD>
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Additional Materials</FONT></TD>
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Material under Rule 14a-12</FONT></TD>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Transgenomic, Inc.</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Name of Registrant as Specified in Its
Charter)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate
box):</P>

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fee required.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.8pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">&uml;</FONT>
<FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Fee computed on table below per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11.</FONT></FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(1)</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Title of each class of securities to which transaction applies:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(2)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Aggregate number of securities to which transaction applies:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(3)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Per unit price or other underlying value of transaction computed pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 0-11 (set forth the amount on which the filing fee is calculated and state how it was determined):</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(4)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Proposed maximum aggregate value of transaction:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Total fee paid:</FONT></TD></TR>
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<FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fee paid previously with preliminary materials:</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.8pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">&uml;<FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Check
box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Exchange Act Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing for which the offsetting
fee was paid previously. Identify the previous filing by registration statement number, or the form or schedule and the date of
its filing.</FONT></FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Amount previously paid:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Form, Schedule or Registration Statement No.:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(3)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Filing Party:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Date Filed:</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>EXPLANATORY NOTE</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><I>This proxy statement supplement, dated October 19, 2016,
supplements the definitive proxy statement (the &ldquo;Proxy Statement&rdquo;) of Transgenomic, Inc. (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;),
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 22, 2016, relating to the Special Meeting of Stockholders of the
Company originally held at the offices of Paul Hastings LLP, 4747 Executive Drive, 12<SUP>th</SUP>&nbsp;Floor, San Diego, California
92121, on October 11, 2016, which meeting was adjourned until Monday, October 31, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.</I></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><I>The purpose of this proxy statement
supplement is to correct an error&nbsp;related to the vote required to approve the authorization of the Company&rsquo;s Board of
Directors to, in its discretion, amend the Company&rsquo;s Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the &ldquo;Proposal&rdquo;),
as disclosed on pages 5 and 17 of the Proxy Statement. Set forth below are the applicable sections on pages 5 and 17, respectively,
of the Proxy Statement with the corrected vote required to approve the Proposal. Except as specifically supplemented by the information
contained herein, all information set forth in the Proxy Statement remains unchanged.</I></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><I>Page 5</I></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>Vote Required</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">On the Record Date,
there were 23,744,898 issued and outstanding shares of our common stock and 214,705 issued and outstanding shares of Series A-1
Preferred Stock. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote on each matter to be voted on at the Special Meeting. The holders
of Series A-1 Preferred Stock are entitled to 0.93 votes for every one share of Series A-1 Preferred Stock held on each matter
to be voted on at the Special Meeting. Accordingly, the owners of Series A-1 Preferred Stock have an aggregate of 199,675 votes
with respect to each matter to be voted on at the Special Meeting. The holders of Series A-1 Preferred Stock will vote together
as a single class with the holders of common stock on Proposal One.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in"><B><I>Proposal One:
Authorization of the Board to, in its discretion, amend our Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to effect a
reverse stock split of our common stock at a ratio of between one-for-ten to one-for-thirty, such ratio to be determined by the
Board.</I></B>&nbsp;The affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of our common stock and Series A-1 Preferred Stock outstanding
and entitled to vote on the matter, voting together as a single class (with each one share of Series A-1 Preferred Stock being
entitled to 0.93 votes), is required to approve the authorization of the Board to, in its discretion, amend our Third Amended and
Restated Certificate of Incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of our common stock at a ratio of between one-for-ten to
one-for-thirty, such ratio to be determined by the Board. Abstentions and broker non-votes will be counted as votes against this
proposal.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><I>Page 17</I></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>Vote Required</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">The affirmative vote
of a majority of the shares of our common stock and Series A-1 Preferred Stock outstanding and entitled to vote on the matter,
voting together as a single class (with each one share of Series A-1 Preferred Stock being entitled to 0.93 votes), is required
to approve the authorization of the Board to, in its discretion, amend our Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
to effect a reverse stock split of our common stock at a ratio of between one-for-ten to one-for-thirty, such ratio to be determined
by the Board.</P>



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