Bioinformatics thesaurus

API Application Programmer Interface
ACEDB A Cahenorhabitis elegans database
AFDB Archaeoglobus fulgidus Genome Database
AMSDb Antimicrobial Sequences Database
ARR Androgen Receptor Resource
AnoDB An Anopheles Database
AtDB Arabidopsis thaliana Database
AtIR Arabidopsos thaliana Information Resource
BBDB Borrelia burgdorferi Genome Databse
BLAST Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
BioImage Biological Images database
CATH Class,Architecture, Topology, Homology
CAZy Carbohydrate-Active enZymes
CCSD Complete Carbohydrates Structure Database
CGAP Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
CINEMA Colour INteractive Editor for Multiple Alignments
CMS Current Medline Scanner
COPE Cytokines Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
CSD Cambridge Structural Database
CSNDB Cell signaling Networks Databse
CUTG Codon Usage Tabulated from Genbank
CCP11 Computer Collaborative Project
DbCFC Cytokine Family cDNA database
DbEST database of Expressed Sequence Tags
DbGSS database of Genome Survey Sequence
DbSNP database of single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
DbSTS database of Sequence Tagged Sites
DDBJ DNA Data Bank of Japan
DELTA Description Language for Taxonomy
DIP Database of Interacting Proteins
DOGS Database of Genome Sizes
DPD DNA Pataent Database
DPInteract DNA-Protein Ineractions databse
ECDC E.coli Databse Collection
EMG Encyclopedia Promoter Databse
ESTHER ESTerase and alpha/beta Hydrolase Enzymes and Relatives
EPD Eukaryotic Promoter Database
EpoDB Erythropoiesis Database
EBI European BioInformatics Institute (EMBL Outstation)
EGCG Extensions to the GCG package (See article by Rice et al.)
eMail Electronic Mail
EMBL European Molecular Biology Laboratory
EMBnet European Molecular Biology network
EPFL Ecole Politechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
ETH Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich, Switzerland
EU European Union
Entrez Database retrieval program created by the NCBI
FDF Fast Data Finder
FSSP Fold classification based on Structure-Structure alignemnt of Proteins
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FASTA Sequence database searching program created by W.Pearson
GByte GigaByte , 1 000 000 000 bytes
GCRDb G-protein-coupled Receptor Databse
GDB Genome Database
GQ GeneQuiz
GRBase Growth Regulation Databse
GRR Glucocorticoid Receptor Resource
GSDB GEnomic Sequence Databse
GCG Genetics Computer Group Inc., commercial vendor of the GCG package
GNA Globewide Network Academy, and initiative for teleteaching
GUI Graphical User Interface
HEXAdb Hexosaminidase A Locus database
HGMD Human Gene Mutation Database
HGSI Human Genome Sequencing Index
HIDB Haemophilus influenza Rd Genome Database
HMM Hidden Markov Model
HOVERGEN Homologous Vertebrate Genes database
HPDB Helicobacter pylori Genome Databse
HASSLE Network protocol created by the Swiss node of EMBnet
HGMP Human Genome Mapping Project, based at Cambridge/United Kingdom
HSSP Database of homology-derived structures of proteins (Sander et al.)
IGD Interagrated Genomic Database
IMAGE Intergrated Molecular Analysis of Gene Expression
IMGT The international ImMunoGeneTics information system®
INC The Ion Channel network
ICGEB International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste
ICLUI IBM Class Library User Interface
IG Intelligenetics Inc.; commercial vendor of the Intelligenetics Suite
INCBI Irish National Centre for BioInformatics
IP Internet Protocol, connecting 3-5 millions of computers
JIPID Japan International Protein Information Databse
JaMBW Java based Molecular Biologist’s Workbench
KEGG Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes
LIMS Laboratory Information Management System
LSUrRNA db large ribosomal subunit database
MAD Malaria Antigen Database
MDB Metalloprotein site Database and Browser
MEME MultipleEM for Motif Elicitation
MGC Mammalian Gene Collection
MGDB Mycoplasma Genitalium Genome Database
MGI Mouse GEnome Informatics
MHCPEP MHC-binding peptides database
MIPS Munich Information centre for Protein Sequences
MJDB Methanococcus jannaschii Genome Database
MMDB Molecular Modelling Database
MOWSE MOlecular Weight Search
MPDB Molecualar Probe Database
MRR Mineralocorticoid Receptor Resource
MSA Multiple Sequence Alignments
MT Metallothioneins database
MolR Us Molecules R Us
MasPar Name of a hardware vendor for computers of the same name
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, conventions for sending eMail
MPsrch Sequence searching application on the MasPar computer (Coulson et al.)
MSU Mail Submission Utility, allows to send data by eMail conveniently
MycDB Mycobacterium Database
NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information, Washington, US
NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications, US
NDB Nucleic Acid Database
NFS Network File System, a program system to share files on local networks
NRR Nuclear Receptor Resource
OMF Open Molecule Foundation
OMIA Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals
OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
OPD Oligonucleotide Probe Database
ORDB Olfactory Receptor Database
ORPHANET Database of rare diseases and orphan drugs
OS Operating System, the program which keeps computers alive
OSF/1 Tradename for Digital Equipment’s flavour of UNIX operating systems
PC ‘Personal Computer’, can be anything from low-end to very powerful
PDB Protein Datab Bank
PHI-blast Pattern Hit Intiated BLAST
PKR Protein Kinase Resource
PMD Protein Mutation Database
PSI-blast Position Specific Iterated BLAST
Pfam Protein Families Database
ProDom Protein Domain Database
PHYLIP Program Package created by J.Felsenstein for Phylogenicity
PIR Protein Identifiaction Resource International, a protein database vendor
PMDF Program package to deal with electronic mail
PSB Abbreviation for ‘Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing’
RASMOL Program package by R.Sayle to display protein structures
RDP Ribosomal Database Project
RFC Request for Comments, documents describing Internet Protocol conventions
SCOP Structural Classification of Proteins
SCPD Sacharomyces Cerevisae Promoter Database
SEALS System for Easy Analysis of Lots of Sequences
SGD Sacharomyces Genome Database
SMART Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool
SRPDB Signal Recognition Particle Database
SRS Sequence Retrieval System. Program for biological database browsing created by T.Etzold(EMBL)
SSU rRNA db small ribosomal subunit RNA database
STACK Sequence Tag Alignment and Consensus Knowledgebase
STKE Signal Transduction Knowledge Enivronment
SeqAnalRef Sequence Analysis bibilographic reference database
SRSWWW Version of the Sequence Retrieval System running in the WWW environment
tcl/Tk Programing environment for the creation of graphical user interfaces
TIGR MGI TIGR Mouse Gene Index
TRR Thyroid Hormaone Receptor Resource
Trembl ‘Translated EMBL’, a SRS-based compilation of the EMBL DNA data library
URL Universal resource Locator, the unique name of a document in the WWW
USENET world-wide messaging system to transport electronic bulletin boards
VDRR Vitamin D Receptor Resource
VMS Digital Equipment’s proprietary operating system
VSNS Virtual School of Natural Sciences, a teleteaching initiative
WAIS full-text database searching system, mostly used in WWW environments
WDCM World Data Centre for Microorganisma
WIT What is There
WormPD Worm Proteome Database
WPI Wisconsin Package Interface, graphical user interface to the GCG package
WWW World-Wide Web, an information system to browse the international networks
WWW2GCG The Belgian EMBnet Node’s system to use the GCG package via WWW
YPD Yeast Protein Database