| A | B |
|---|
| AIBS | American Institute of Biological Sciences |
| BAC | Bacterial Artificial Chromosome |
| BIO | Biotechnology Industry Organization |
| BLAST | basic local alignment search tool |
| bp | base pair (nucleic acids) |
| BSL 1 | biosafety level 1; involving agents not known to consistently cause disease in healthy adult humans |
| BSL 2 | biosafety level 2; involving agents of moderate potential hazard to personnel and the environment |
| BSL 3 | biosafety level 3; work is done with indigenous or exotic agents which may cause serious or potentially lethal disease after inhalation |
| BSL 4 | biosafety level 4; work with dangerous and exotic agents that pose a high individual risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections, agents which cause severe to fatal disease in humans for which vaccines or other treatments are not available |
| Bt | Bacillus thuringiensis |
| cDNA | complementary DNA |
| CFU | Colony Forming Unit |
| cGMP | Current Good Manufacturing Practice (quality assurance) |
| CHO | Chinese Hamster Ovary cell line |
| CHP | Chemical Hygiene Plan |
| CIP | Common Industry Practice |
| CIS | Chemical Inventory Sheet |
| CSHL | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| ddNTP | dideoxynucleoside triphosphate |
| DNase | deoxyribonuclease |
| dNTP | deoxynucleoside triphosphate |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| DPA | Diphenol Amine (nucleic acid indicator) |
| dsDNA | double stranded DNA |
| ELISA | enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| ES | Embryonic Stem |
| FDA | US Food and Drug Administration |
| FISH | Fluorescence in situ hybridization |
| GDB | Genomic Database |
| GE | genetically engineered |
| GFP | green fluorescent protein |
| GLP | Good Laboratory Practice |
| GM | genetically modified |
| GMO | genetically modified organism |
| GOI | Gene of Interest |
| h-DNA | heteroduplex DNA |
| HAC | human artificial chromosome |
| HCS | Federal Hazard Communication Standard |
| HeLa | Henrietta Lacks (human cancer cell line) |
| HGP | Human Genome Project |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| HTGS | high throughput genomic sequencing |
| kb | kilobase |
| kDa | kilodalton |
| LB | Luria Bertani (broth or agar) |
| Mb | megabase |
| MDA-MB-435 | Breast Cancer human cell line |
| MHC | major histocompatibility complex |
| miRNA | microRNA |
| MSDS | Material Safety Data Sheet |
| mtDNA | mitochondrial DNA |
| NCGR | National Center for Genome Research |
| NCI | National Cancer Institute |
| NGO | non-governmental organization |
| NHGRI | National Human Genome Research Institute |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NRC | National Research Councel |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man |
| OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| PAGE | polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PPE | Personal Protective Equipment |
| PubMed | Scientific Article Database |
| QC | Quality Control |
| rDNA | recombinant DNA |
| RFLP | restriction fragment length polymorphism |
| RNAi | RNA interference |
| SIP | Standard Industry Practice |
| SDS | sodium dodecyl sulphate |
| STR | Sequence tandem repeats |
| SNP | single nucleotide polymorphism |
| snRNA | small nuclear RNA |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
| ssDNA | single stranded DNA |
| Taq | Thermus aquaticus |
| TIGR | The Institute for Genomic Research |
| U251 | Human glioma cancer cell line |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| VNTR | variable number of tandem repeats |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
