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Last revised November 20, 2009
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BioPax:  Biological Pathways Exchange.  A collaborative effort to create a data exchange format for biological pathway data. http://www.biopax.org/ 

BISTI Biomedical Information Science & Technology Initiative http://www.bisti.nih.gov/bistic2.cfm 

BMS: Bristol Myers Squibb http://www.bms.com/landing/data/index.html 

CRA: Clinical Research Associate

CRC Clinical Research Coordinator

CRI Clinical Research Investigator

EBI: European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. An EMBL outstation.  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

eCTD Electronic Common Technical Document http://www.fda.gov/cder/regulatory/ersr/ectd.htm 

GCP: Good Clinical Practice

GLP Good Laboratory Practice

GMP: Good Manufacturing Practice

GSK: GlaxoSmithKline http://www.gsk.com/ 

J&J, jnj: Johnson & Johnson http://www.jnj.com/home.htm  Many companies come under the Johnson & Johnson name. http://www.jnj.com/our_company/family/index.htm

KOLs: Key Opinion Leaders

MIAME Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MIAME/miame.html 

OWG Ontology Working Group http://mged.sourceforge.net/ontologies/index.php 

Bibliography
 Glossary, Association of British Healthcare Industries Ltd. , 2007  http://www.abhi.org.uk/glossary/default.aspx  
IUPAC, Abbreviations and acronyms used in the Toxicology Literature, IUPAC Glossary of Toxicology, 2007  http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/iupacglossary/annex1.html 
IUPAC, Abbreviations and acronyms of names of International Bodies, IUPAC Glossary of Toxicology, 2007 http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/iupacglossary/annex2.html 

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