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Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, Harcourt, Inc. 110,000 terms+. http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/apr00/web1.htm 

American Electrophoresis Society, Glossary of Terms, 2000 - 2007, 350+ terms  http://www.aesociety.org/glossary.php 

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants "CPA Vision Process Glossary", 1998-2000, 23 terms. http://www.aicpa.org/download/mediacenter/AICPA_Glossary.pdf 

AO-VNMR Glossary, Albin Otter, Chemistry Dept. Univ. of Alberta, Canada.  http://nmr.chem.ualberta.ca/AOWWW/  About 50 terms.

Bains, William, Biotechnology A-Z, Oxford University Press, 2003. About 400 entries/definitions.  To order: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-852498-6  

Biochemical Society [UK] Glossary of terms, 100+ terms  http://www.biochemistry.org/groups/ppsg/glossary.htm

Bioinformatics definitions CMGM, Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford Univ. 2000. 1000 + definitions.  http://cmgm.stanford.edu/help/definitions/

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Healthcare Coverage Glossary, 400 + terms, 2000- 2006  http://www.bcbs.com/coverage/glossary/a

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,  Life Sciences Thesaurus   9,400 terms, 4th edition, 2007  http://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/lscthes.php 

Cancer.gov dictionary, National Cancer Institute, NIH, US,  4,000 plus terms. http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/

CDISC Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, Clinical Trials Terminology, 2004  http://www.cdisc.org/glossary/CDISCGlossaryV3.pdf 

CenterWatch Glossary, 1995 - 2007, 100+ definitions http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/glossary.html

CHA Cambridge Healthtech Advisors reports: SEE  Insight Pharma reports http://www.insightpharmareports.com/ 

CHA Cambridge Healthtech Advisors, Microarrays, Technologies, Applications, Markets report, 2004

CHA Cambridge Healthtech Advisors, Model Animal Systems: Emerging Applications and Commercial Opportunities in Drug Discovery and Development, report 2004

CHA Cambridge Healthtech Advisors, Molecular Imaging Comes of Age: Applications and Impacts in Discovery, Clinical Trials, and Medical Practice reports, 2004 

CHA, New Directions in Monoclonal Antibodies: Technologies, Markets, Competition report, 2004

CHA Cambridge Healthtech Advisors, Proteins: Selection, Synthesis and Purification Strategies for Optimizing Drug Discovery report, 2004

CHA Cambridge Healthtech Advisors, Successful Outsourcing of Pharmaceutical R&D: Trends and Strategies report, 2004

ClinicalTrials.gov Glossary of Clinical Trials Terms, National Library of Medicine, 2005. http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/info/glossary Creighton], Thomas E., Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. 4 volumes.

ClinicalStudyResults.org, PhRMA, Glossary, 15 definitions http://www.clinicalstudyresults.org/glossary/ 

CRISP Thesaurus, NIH, US   http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/Thesaurus/index.htm

DDBJ/ EMBL/ GenBank Feature Table, Version 6.7, 2007, 100 + definition. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Documentation/FT_definitions/feature_table.html

Schneider, Tom and Karen Lewis, Glossary for Molecular Information Theory and the Delila System, Lab of Computational and Experimental Biology, NCI Frederick, US, 1999 - 2007. 100+ definitions.  http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/glossary.html

DOE, Human Genome Project Information, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dictionary of Genetic Terms. 2007, 100+ definitions. http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/glossary/  
Part of the Genomics and its impact on Medicine and Society, 2003 http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/publicat/primer2001/index.shtml

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, W. B. Saunders Co., 29^th edition, 2002 http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_a-b_00zPzhtm 

Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation, Brian Tissue, Chemistry Hypermedia Project, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, US, 1995- 2003. http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/ac-meths.html

Evidence Based Medicine Glossary, Mt. Sinai Hospital, 30+ terms, US, 2004   http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/glossary/index.htm#top

FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture: Revised and augmented edition, Food and Agricultural Organization, 2001  http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/004/Y2775E/Y2775E00.HTM   Searchable database, 2,000 plus terms http://www.fao.org/biotech/index_glossary.asp  
Not just for food or agriculture.

FDA, CDER, Glossary Drugs@FDA,  2004 - 2007, 40+ definitions. http://www.fda.gov/cder/drugsatfda/glossary.htm

FDA Consumer Magazine, Drug Review Glossary, 25 definitions http://www.fda.gov/fdac/special/newdrug/bengloss.html 

FDAReview.org Glossary, Independent Institute, 2003, about 60 terms http://www.fdareview.org/glossary.shtml 

Folding@home glossary, Stanford Univ. Tug Sezen, VIjay Pande, 2002, 200+ definitions http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/education/glossary.html http://www.fdareview.org/glossary.shtml 

FOLDOC Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Denis Howe, 2007. 14,400+ terms.  http://foldoc.org/   Part of OneLook.com

Flake Gary Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems and Adaptation. Glossary MIT Press, 2002. 280+ definitions. Part of OneLook. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/glossary-intro.html

GeneEd, Biotechnology Glossary, Dr. Salil D. Patel and Dr. Sunil Maulik, 2001, 1000+ terms   http://www.geneed.com/glossary/index.html

Glick, David M., Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2007  http://www.portlandpress.com/pp/books/online/glick/default.htm 

GO Term definitions, Gene Ontology Consortium ^TM , Version 3.524, 2007, 12,000+ http://www.geneontology.org/ontology/GO.defs 

Green S, Higgins J, editors. Glossary. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions 4.2.5 [updated May 2005]. http://www.cochrane.org/resources/handbook/  (accessed  2007 Oct. 22).  Glossary of Terms http://www.cochrane.org/resources/glossary.htm 

Harper, Douglas, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001 http://www.etymonline.com/index.php 

Holmgren Lab, Life Science Glossary, Northwestern Univ. 2004 http://www.biochem.northwestern.edu/holmgren/Glossary/Definitions.html Extensive collection of developmental biology, genetic, cell biology, molecular biology, molecular genetic, and biochemistry definitions.

Howe, Walt, Glossary of Internet Terms,  2007  http://www.walthowe.com/glossary/

Human Genome Variation Society, Nomenclature for the description of sequence variation, 2007 http://www.genomic.unimelb.edu.au/mdi/mutnomen/ 

Inmon, Bill, Glossary of Data Warehousing, 2002-2005  http://www.inmoncif.com/library/glossary/ 

Insight Pharma Reports  Was Advances reports

Insight Pharma Reports, $1,000 Genome: Trends in Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies,  2007 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2007/85_Next_Gen_Sequencing/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Advances in Lead Optimization Accelerating Drug Discovery and Development  report, 2003 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports Adaptive Clinical Trials and other innovations in trial design, management and analysis, 2007 forthcoming

Insight Pharma Reports, Autism: A Developmental Disorder That Is Massively on the Rise. Unmet Needs, http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/62_Sleeper_Diseases/overview.asp#a Part of Insight Pharma Reports, Sleeper diseases: Forecast and Assessment of Neglected Disease Market Opportunity, 2006 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/62_Sleeper_Diseases/overview.asp

Insight Pharma Reports, Backup Compound Strategies: Best Practices for Reducing Phase II Risk, 2007

Insight Pharma Reports, Bayesian Forecasting of Phase III Outcomes: The Next Wave in Predictive Tools, June 2007  

Insight Pharma Reports,  Biochemical Pathway and Systems Analysis for Target Identification and Validation report, 2002 

Insight Pharma Reports  Biomarker SOPs: Getting Optimum Value from Your Biomarker Programs  2007

Insight Pharma Reports, Biomarkers in Clinical Development: Implications for Personalized Medicine and Streamlining R&D report, 2005 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/47_Biomarkers/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Cancer Diagnostics: Technology and Business Trends, 2005 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/54_CancerDx/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Cancer Genomics: Revolutionizing Treatment and Reshaping Markets through Targeted Therapies, 2003 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports,  Cancer Immunotherapies and Vaccines: Pipelines Analysis and Competitive Dynamics, 2006 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/73_CancerIM/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Cardiotoxicity issues, technologies and solutions for the future, 2008 http://www.chicorporate.com/reports_report.aspx?id=75178&r=558 

Insight Pharma Reports, Cardiovascular Diagnostics: Key Developments in Technologies and Markets, 2005 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/49_CardioDx/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports,  Clinical Genomics: The Impact of Genomics on Clinical Trials and Medical Practice report, 2004 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/61_Clinical_Genomics/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Combination Drug/Diagnostic Products, 2007  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2007/82_Combo/overview.asp

Insight Pharma Reports, Combination Therapies: Benefits and Challenges in Drug, Device and Biologicals Development, 2005 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/56_Combination/overview.asp

Insight Pharma Reports, Comparative Genomic Hybridization: Current State and Future Directions,  2006   http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/70_CGH/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Compound Backup Strategies: Best Practices for Reducing Phase II Risk, 2007 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2007/87_Backup_Compound/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Cytokine Therapies and Inhibitors: A Vibrant Pipeline and Active Approved Market, 2007 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2007/76_Cytokines/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Delivery Technologies for Protein Therapeutics: Assessment and Outlook, 2007 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2007/78_Protein/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Diabetes and its Complications: Strategies to Advance Therapy and Optimize R&D. 2007 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2007/80_Diabetes/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma, Disease Related Biomarkers: Their Potential in Patient Screening, Prognosis and Stratification, 2007 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2007/83_Disease_Biomarkers/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports Emerging Targets in Disease with High Unmet Needs, 2006

Insight Pharma Reports, Epigenetics, 2008  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports_report.aspx?id=72344&r=555 

Insight Pharma Reports GPCRs: Mining the Richest Vein in Drug Discovery report, 2003 
http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports,  Hematological Cancer Therapeutics: Pipelines and Competition, 2005  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/53_BloodCancer/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, High Content Analysis, Technologies, Applications, Market Analysis, 2007

Insight Pharma Reports, Human Genotyping: Technologies and Markets 2008 forthcoming

Insight Pharma Reports, Impact of Genomics on Clinical Trials and Medical Practice, 2006 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/61_Clinical_Genomics/overview.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports, Infectious diseases: R&D Challenges and Market Drivers 2006        http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/68_Infectious_Diseases/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports: Inflammatory Disease Therapeutics: Pipelines and Competitive Dynamics, 2005  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/50_Inflammatory/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Kinase Therapeutic Pipelines: An assessment of Targets and Agents in Development,  2007 earlier title Kinase Inhibitors: Pipelines, Technologies & Markets

Insight Pharma Reports, Kinases: From Targets to Therapeutics report, 2003 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports, Life Sciences Informatics: From Data to Drugs report, 2003 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp   

Insight Pharma Reports  Metabolic and Inflammatory Disease R&D: An Assessment of 5 Highly Promising Therapeutic Classes 2007

Insight Pharma Reports, Metabolic Syndrome, Pipeline Analysis and US Market Forecast report, 2005 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/44_Metabolic_Syndrome/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Microdosing in Translational Medicine: Pros and Cons,  2006  

Insight Pharma Reports, Molecular Diagnostics: New Growth, New Markets, 2005  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/57_Molecular_Diagnostics/overview.asp

Insight Pharma Reports, Molecular Diagnostics: A rapidly shifting commercial and technology landscape, 2007 

Insight Pharma Reports, Molecular Imaging in Drug R&D and Medical Practice: Technologies, Applications, Markets,  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2008/92_Molecular_Imaging/overview.asp  2008

Insight Pharma Reports, Monoclonal Antibodies: Pipeline Analysis and Competitive Assessment, 2007 

Insight Pharma Reports, Multiplex assays, technologies, applications and markets, 2006 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/63_Multiplex/overview.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports, New paradigm for clinical development: Clinical Trial in 2015, 2006 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/59_Clinical_Trials/overview.asp   

Insight  Pharma Reports Nutrigenomics: Impacts on Markets, Diets, and Health report, 2005

Insight Pharma Reports Obesity drug pipeline: Developing therapies for a complex disease, 2008 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports_report.aspx?id=81172&r=653 

Insight Pharma Reports, Oncogenomics, 2006 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/60_Oncogenomics/overview.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports, Outlook for DNA Microarrays: Emerging Applications and Insights on Optimizing Microarray Studies report, 2002 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports  Outlook for Predictive Safety Technologies, 2006  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/74_PredSafety/overview.asp

Insight pharma Reports, Post-genomic Target Validation: Next Generation Approaches & Tools for Optimizing Target Selection,  2003. http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports, Potential Breakthroughs in Neurotherapeutics: Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Schizophrenia, 2006 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/72_Neurotherapeutics/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Pharmaceutical R&D Productivity: The Path to Innovation, 2005  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/55_RDProductivity/overview.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports, Pharmacodiagnostics: Technologies, Competition and Market Models, 2005 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/51_Pharmacodiagnostics/overview.asp 

Insight Biopharma Reports, Powering Discovery through Target Evaluation: Moving beyond the validation paradigm, 2005 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/52_TargetValidation/overview.asp

Insight Pharma Reports, Predictive Pharmacogenomics Revolutionizing Health Care  report, 2002. http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports,  Proteomics Survey, 2003  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp   

Insight Pharma Reports, Proteomics: Current State and Future Directions, 2006 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports, Prospects for Commercialization of Human Monoclonal Antibodies Report, 2002  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports,  RNAi Therapeutics, 2005  http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports,  Strategic Considerations for the US Pharmaceutical Industry report: 2015, 2005 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports, Sleeper diseases: Forecast and Assessment of Neglected Disease Market Opportunity, 2006 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/62_Sleeper_Diseases/overview.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports, Specialty Pharmaceuticals: Driving Industry Growth into the Next Decade, 2006 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2006/71_Specialty_Pharmaceuticals/overview.asp

Insight Pharma Reports, Successful Pharmacogenomics Business Models report  2003 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports, Targeting RNA in Drug Development Emerging Tools & Therapeutics report, 2002 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

Insight Pharma Reports,  Toxicogenomics: and Predictive Toxicology: Market and Business Outlook report, 2005 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/all_reports.asp  

International Society for Stem Cell Research, Glossary, 2002, about 20 terms defined  http://tnt.tchlab.org/stemcells/glossary.htm  

IRB Institutional Review Board Glossary, Office for Human Research Protection, US Dept. Health & Human Services, 2001. 150+ definitions. http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/irb/irb_glossary.htm 

ISPE International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering Glossary, Michelle Gonzalez,  5,000 plus terms, 2005  http://www2.ispe.org/glossary2/ 

IUPAC  International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Glossary of Terms used in Bioinorganic Chemistry, Recommendations, 1997. 450+ definitions. http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/bioinorg/

IUPAC  International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Glossary for Chemists of terms used in biotechnology. Recommendations, Pure & Applied Chemistry 64 (1): 143-168, 1992. 200 + definitions.

IUPAC  International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Nomenclature for chromatography, L.S. Ettre, editor, Pure and Applied Chemistry 65: 819-872, 1993.  450+ definitions. http://www.merck.de/english/services/chromatographie/index.htm   Click on "IUPAC Nomenklatura"

IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Glossary of Terms Used in Combinatorial Chemistry, D. Maclean, J. J. Baldwin, V.T. Ivanov, Y. Kato, A. Shaw, P. Schneider, and E. M.. Gordon, Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 71, No. 12, pp. 2349-2365, 1999. 100+ definitions. http://www.iupac.org/reports/1999/7112maclean/

IUPAC  International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Compendium of Chemical Terminology: Recommendations, compiled by Alan D. McNaught and Andrew Wilkinson, Blackwell Science, 1997. "Gold Book" 6500+ definitions. http://goldbook.iupac.org/   Does not include Glossary of Bioinorganic Chemistry (1997) or Glossary of Medicinal Chemistry (1998). 

IUPAC  International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Glossary of Terms used in Computational Drug Design, H. van de Waterbeemd, R.E. Carter, G. Grassy, H. Kubinyi, Y. C.. Martin, M.S. Tute, P. Willett, 1997. 125+ definitions. http://www.iupac.org/reports/1997/6905vandewaterbeemd/glossary.html

IUPAC Recommendations for nomenclature and symbolism for Mass Spectroscopy, Pure and Applied Chemistry 63:1541-1563, 1991. About 275 definitions.

IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Glossary of Medicinal Chemistry, 1998. 100+ terms. http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/medchem/

IUPAC  International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Glossary of Terms used in Photochemistry, Pure and Applied Chemistry 68 (12): 2223-2286, Mar. 1996.  400+ definitions http://www.unibas.ch/epa/glossary/glossary.pdf

IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Glossary of Terms used in Physical Organic Chemistry, Recommendations 1994. 700+ definitions.  http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/gtpoc/

IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Glossary of Terms in Quantities and Units in Clinical Chemistry, Biochim Clin 1995; 19: 471-502. Around 300 definitions  Pure & Applied Chemistry 68: 957- 1000, 1996

IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Basic Terminology of Stereochemistry Recommendations, 1996. 250+ definitions. http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/stereo/

IUPAC, Glossary of bioanalytical nomenclature - Part 1: General terminology, body fluids, enzymology, immunology Recommendations 1994 http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/1994/pdf/6612x2587.pdf 

IUPAC, Glossary for toxicokinetics of chemicals, 365 terms. http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/2004/pdf/7605x1033.pdf  Published Pure & Applied Chemistry 76 (5): 1033-1082, 2004

IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, GLOSSARY FOR CHEMISTS OF TERMS USED IN TOXICOLOGY Clinical Chemistry Division, Commission on Toxicology, Pure and Appl. Chem., 65 ( 9):  2003- 2122, 1993. 1200+ definitions. http://www.iupac.org/reports/1993/6509duffus/  

IUPAC, Glossary of terms used in theoretical organic chemistry, 1999 http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/1999/71_10_pdf/7110mirkin_1919.pdf

IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Nomenclature in laboratory robotics and automation, 1994 http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/1994/pdf/6603x0609.pdf 

IUPAC, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry, Committee on Molecular Biology Techniques in Clinical chemistry, Committee on Nomenclature, Properties and Units, Properties and units in Clinical Molecular Biology, 2004 http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/2004/pdf/7609x1799.pdf Pure and Applied Chemistry 76 (9): 1799-1

Standard Definitions of Terms relating to Mass Spectrometry, Provisional Recommendations, 2007 http://www.iupac.org/reports/provisional/abstract06/murray_310107.html 

King, Robert C. and William D. Stansfield, Dictionary of Genetics, Oxford University Press, 6th edition,  2002.  6600+  definitions in 5th ed..  To order: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LifeSciences/Genetics/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9MDE5NTE0MzI1Ng== 

Lackie, JM and JAT Dow, Dictionary of Cell & Molecular Biology, Academic Press, 3^rd ed., 1999. 7,000+ definitions.   

Lemon Stanley M. and Alan Barbour "Glossary of terms commonly used in molecular biology" UNC- Chapel Hill and Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, US, 2001. 250+ definitions. http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/3ctrpgm/pmbb/mbt/GLOS.htm  

Leonard, Andrew, The Free Software Project,  Free software glossary, Salon.com, 2000, 66 definitions http://cobrand.salon.com/tech/fsp/glossary/

Lewin, Benjamin Genes VIII Online  http://www.ergito.com/index.jsp  2002, Extensive glossary 800 + definitions  

Life Science Dictionary, University of Texas Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, 2006, Indiana Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology 1995-1998. 8,300+ definitions. http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html   not available Sept 6, 2007

Lyons Robert H., A Molecular Biology Glossary: A Quick and Dirty Reference to Terms Used in Molecular Biology, Univ. of Michigan DNA sequencing core, 2001. 150 + definitions. http://seqcore.brcf.med.umich.edu/doc/educ/dnapr/mbglossary/mbgloss.html

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sybil Parker, editor 2000. 105,000 terms. 

McNerney, Ruth, Glossary of terms commonly used in molecular diagnostics, Dept. of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Diseases, about 50 terms. http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/pmbu/staff/rmcnerney/homepage/glossary.html

Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary, Merriam Webster, Inc. 2003. Via Aetna IntelliHealth. http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?t=9276&p=~br,IHW%7C~st,408%7C~r,
WSIHW000%7C~b,*%7C

MeSH Medical Subject Headings, (PubMed Browser) National Library of Medicine, Revised annually.  250,000 entry terms, 19,000 main headings. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=MeSH&term= 

MeSH bibliography, 2005  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/intro_biblio2006.html Dictionaries, handbooks, textbooks, websites

MeSH Topical Subheadings with Scope Notes, National Library of Medicine, 80 + definitions  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/topsubscope.html

MGED, MIAME Glossary, 2005 about 80 terms  http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MIAME/miame_glossary.html 

Molecular systematics and evolution, The Natural History Museum, London  and  Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2001, 100 + terms.  http://bioinf.ncl.ac.uk/molsys/Glossary.html  

Mouse Genome Informatics Glossary, Jackson Lab, US,  250+ definitions. 2006 http://www.informatics.jax.org/javawi2/servlet/WIFetch?page=glossaryIndex&print=no  

NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information, Glossary, 1996. 13 definitions. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SCIENCE96/Glossary.html

NCBI Bioinformatics glossary, National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2004. 40 terms  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Education/BLASTinfo/glossary2.html

NCRR National Center for Research Resources "Integrated Genomics Technologies Workshop Report" Jan 1999  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RR-99-003.html 

NHGRI (National Human Genome Research Institute), Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms, 100+ definitions. http://www.genome.gov/glossary.cfm Includes extended audio definitions.

NHLBI Clinical Research Guide, National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute,  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/crg/glossary.php 

NIGMS National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Chemistry of Health Glossary, 2006 http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/chemhealth/glossary.html  

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology, Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures and Problems, Paul E. Black, 2007,  1300+  terms  http://hissa.nist.gov/dads/terms.html

National Library of Medicine, NIH, Genetics Home Reference glossary, 2007  http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ghr/glossary/Glossary 

Novartis Clinical Trials Glossary, Novartis E Trials, 2007  http://www.novartisclinicaltrials.com/etrials/clinicalTrialGlossary.do About 80 terms.

OED Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2^nd edition, 1989 plus supplements 1993-1997. 3rd edition:  http://www.oed.com

OMD Online Medical Dictionary, Dr. Graham Dark, Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB 1997- 2005. 65,000+ definitions.  http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/ Part of OneLook

OneLook Dictionaries, Bob Ware http://onelook.com/index.html  Index to 900+ online dictionaries.

ORD Office of Rare Diseases, NIH, Rare Diseases Terms, 2003,  300 + definitions http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/asp/resources/glossary_a-e.asp

Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2006, Over 17,000 main entries. To order  http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LifeSciences/MolecularCellBiology/?view=usa&ci=9780198529170 

Pelikan, Edward, Glossary of terms and symbols used in pharmacology, Boston University Medical School, US, 1998 - 2004, about 300 definitions.  http://www.bumc.bu.edu/Dept/Content.aspx?DepartmentID=65&PageID=7797 

Photonics Dictionary, Laurin Publishing Co. Inc. 1996-2006, 6.000+  definitions. http://www.photonics.com/dictionary/  

PhyloCode Glossary, Ohio Univ. US, 2000 - 2006.  42 definitions. http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/glossary.html

Proteome Society glossary, 2002, 120+ terms http://www.proteome.org/images/PDFs/Proteomic%20Glossary.pdf 

SGD Saccharomyces Genome Database Glossary Terms, Stanford Univ., US,  About 150 definitions. http://www.yeastgenome.org/help/glossary.html 

Schlindwein Birgid, Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms, 2006. 670 definitions. http://www.weihenstephan.de/~schlind/index.html

Science glossaries Science "Functional Genomics Resources": Educational resources: A guide to some useful online glossaries http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/plus/sfg/education/glossaries.shtml  Categories cover genetics and genomics, general biology and molecular biology, post-genomics biotech and bioinformatics, medical genomics and specific organisms. Includes Genomic glossaries.

Statsoft, Inc. Statistics glossary, Electronic Statistics Textbook, Tulsa OK, US 2004, 1200 + terms http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html  Click on Statistical Glossary

Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Glossary of Terms, 2005, 20+
terms. http://csdd.tufts.edu/InfoServices/Glossary.asp

UCMP Glossary of Natural History Terms: Vol. 1, Phylogenetics terms, Univ. of California, Berkeley [US] Museum of Paleontology, 2001, 40+ terms. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss1phylo.html

UMLS National Library of Medicine, (US) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), 2001. About 800,000 concepts and 1.9 million concept names in over 60 different biomedical source vocabularies.  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/   

UNI-PROT KnowledgeBase keywords http://beta.uniprot.org/keywords/   Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva Switzerland, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK, PIR Protein Information Resource, 2002-2007 .

W3C Glossary and Dictionary http://www.w3.org/2003/glossary/  

Wagner John A. Dictionary for logic and experimental design, 2000. 200+ definitions. http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jawagne/dictionary_for_logic_and_e.html  Part of Wagner's Logic of Molecular Approaches to Experimental Design  http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jawagne/  

W3C Glossary and Dictionary, W3C, 2000- 2003   http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-gloss/

WC3, Web Services Glossary, 2004  http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-gloss/   accessed June 26, 2007

Web search glossary, Google http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=50187 60 definitions

Webopedia, 2007  http://www.webopedia.com/  

whatis.com Information Technology encyclopedia. about 4700 + definitions. http://whatis.techtarget.com/   Part of [Onelook] 

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  Not always definitive, but a good starting point for overviews on many topics. 

WordSpy, Paul McFedries, updated daily, 1995-2007  http://www.wordspy.com/  

World Wide Words: investigating international English from a British viewpoint, Michael Quinion. 1996 - 2007, 1000 + definitions. http://www.quinion.com/words/index.htm   Part of OneLook  

WWW Acronym & Abbreviation Server, Peter Flynn, University College, Cork, Ireland, 2001, 18,000+ definitions.  l    http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms 

Zhang, Hao, A Statistical Learning/ Pattern Recognition Glossary, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1999, 80 terms. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~hzhang/glossary.html

Zhang, Yong-he and Meng Zhang, A Dictionary of Gene Technology Terms, Parthenon Publishing Group, 2001, 3,000 + definitions  http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Gene-Technology-Terms/dp/185070015X 

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