| Term | Category | Description | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 129 | Genetics | an inbred stain of mice for laboratory use | |
| alelle | Genetics | a variant of a gene located on a specific location on a chromosome | Diploid organisms like us have two alelles for each gene. |
| CAG | Gene | CMV-IE enhancer,chicken beta-Actin, rabbit beta-Globin | Artificial gene promoter sequence; Constitutive active, nearly ubuiquitous expression |
| call | when a base in DNA sequence is determined, a base is "called"; this is a traditional way in the field of DNA sequencing | as in "base calling", "SNP calling", ... | |
| C57BL/6 | Genetics | an inbred strain of mice for laboratory use | pronouced as C-57-Black6; also written as BL6 or B6 |
| CD45 | Immunology | CD45 antigen detected on the surface of a type of leukocytes | CD45+ means CD45 positive |
| ChIP-seq | Genomics | Chromosomal Immuno-Precipitation sequencing | |
| chromosome | Genetics | chr in short | |
| CNV | Genomics | Copy Number Variation | |
| dbSNP | Genomics | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database | |
| ES | Stem cell | Embryonic Stem | as in "ES cell" |
| F1 | Genetics | 1st generation of offsprings resulting from a cross between distinct genotypes | 1st Fillial generation |
| FISH | Genetics | Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization | |
| FPKM | Bioinformatics | Fragments Per Kilobase of exon per Million reads | |
| GFP | Gene | Green Fluorescent Protein | EGFP is an Enhanced version of GFP created by Clontech Inc. |
| INDELs | Genomics | INsertions and DELetions | |
| NGS | Genomics | Next Genration Sequencer | |
| RNA-seq | Genomics | ||
| SNP | Genomics | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism | SNV that is observed at some frequency in a population |
| SNV | Genomics | Single Nucleotide Variant/Variation | |
| STAP | Stem cell | Stimulus Triggered Aquisition of Pluripotency | The original papers have been retracted. It should not be used in scientific literatures. |
| TCR | Immunology | T-Cell Receptor | The genomic region of TCR is rearranged when the T-cell is differenciated. |
| Tg | Genetics | Transgenic | as in "Tg mouse", etc. |
These are software names: BWA, IGV