Back
to BiopharmaceuticalGlossaries.com
You are here Biopharmaceutical/
Genomics
Glossary homepage
> Resources
Biopharmaceutical Resources
<%END IF%>
Sources used in compiling definitions
include web only, print only and web/ print resources. Not everything is
on the web. See also How
to find other unfamiliar terms.
Websites and Books
AO-VNMR Glossary, Albin Otter, Chemistry Dept. Univ. of Alberta,
Canada. http://nmr.chem.ualberta.ca/AOWWW/
About 50 terms.
ATSDR Glossary, Agency for Toxic Substances &
Disease Registry, http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/glossary.html
2009
Bains, William,
Biotechnology
A-Z, Oxford University Press, 2003. About 400 entries/definitions.
Bandolier EBM Evidence Based Medicine Glossary
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/glossary.html
Bioinformatics definitions CMGM, Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine,
Stanford Univ. 2000. 1000 + definitions. http://cmgm.stanford.edu/help/definitions/
BioLINC Glossary,
NHLBI https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/glossary/
Cancer.gov dictionary, National Cancer Institute, NIH, US,
4,000 plus terms. http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/
CDISC, Glossary Terms Version 7.0 http://www.cdisc.org/search/index.php?findtext=glossary
[download] CenterWatch Glossary,
1995 - 2018, 100+ definitions http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/glossary.html
ClinicalTrials.gov
Glossary of Clinical Trials Terms, National Library of Medicine, 2005. http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/info/glossary
Contract
Pharma Glossary of Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Terms, revised annually
500 plus terms http://www.contractpharma.com/glossary
DDBJ/ ENA/ GenBank
Feature Table, 2018 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Documentation/FT_definitions/feature_table.html
Dorland’s
Medical Dictionary Online, Elsevier
https://www.dorlandsonline.com/dorland/home
Ensembl Glossary http://uswest.ensembl.org/common/Help/Glossary?db=core
Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation, Brian Tissue, Chemistry
Hypermedia Project, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, US, 1995- 2003.http://www.tissuegroup.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/
FAO Term Portal
Food
and Agricultural Organization, Searchable database,
Not just for food or agriculture.
http://www.fao.org/faoterm/en
FDA,
CDER, Glossary Drugs@FDA,
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-approvals-and-databases/drugsfda-glossary-terms
FDAReview.org Glossary, Independent
Institute, 2016 http://www.fdareview.org/glossary.shtml FOLDOC Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Denis Howe, http://foldoc.org/
Part of OneLook.com
Glick, David M., Glossary of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2014
GO Term definitions, Gene Ontology Consortium TM
,
http://www.geneontology.org/
Harper, Douglas,
Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001-2018 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, 2012
http://www.walthowe.com/glossary/
Human Genome Variation
Society, Nomenclature 2013
http://varnomen.hgvs.org/
, Cambridge Healthtech
Intel Glossary
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/glossary.html
International Health
Terminology Standards Development Organisation SEE SNOMED IUPAC Glossary of Terms used in Bioinorganic
Chemistry, Recommendations, 1997. 450+ definitions. http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/bioinorg/
IUPAC, Terminology for biorelated polymers and applications, 2012
https://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/pdf/2012/pdf/8402x0377.pdf
IUPAC Glossary for Chemists of terms used
in biotechnology. Recommendations, Pure & Applied Chemistry 64 (1):
143-168, 1992. 200 + definitions.
IUPAC Nomenclature for chromatography, L.S. Ettre, editor, Pure and Applied Chemistry 65: 819-872, 1993. 450+
definitions. http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/1993/pdf/6504x0819.pdf
IUPAC 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 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
Glossary of terms used
in Computational Drug Design, Part I, 1997
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pac.1997.69.issue-5/pac199769051137/pac199769051137.xml?utm_source=TrendMD&utm_medium=TrendMD&utm_campaign=TrendMD_0
IUPAC Glossary of Terms used in Computational
Drug Design, Part II 2015
https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/pac.2016.88.issue-3/pac-2012-1204/pac-2012-1204.pdf
IUPAC Poole, C., Mester, Z., Miró, M., et al. (2016). Glossary of
terms used in extraction (IUPAC Recommendations 2016). Pure
and Applied Chemistry, 88(5), pp.
517-558. doi:10.1515/pac-2015-0903
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pac.ahead-of-print/pac-2015-0903/www.degruyter.com/view/j/pac.ahead-of-print/pac-2015-0903/pac-2015-0903.xml
IUPAC Definitions of terms relating to mass
spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)
https://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/85/7/1515/
IUPAC Recommendations
for nomenclature and symbolism for Mass Spectroscopy, Pure and Applied
Chemistry 63:1541-1563, 1991. About 275 definitions.
IUPAC
Glossary of terms used
in medicinal chemistry. Part II (IUPAC Recommendations 2013) http://pac.iupac.org/publications/pac/pdf/2013/pdf/8508x1725.pdf
IUPAC Glossary of terms in Biomolecular Screening
2011 http://iupac.org/publications/pac/83/5/1129/
IUPAC, Glossary of terms related to
pharmaceutics, Pure and Applied Chemistry 81, 971–999, 2009, 168
definitions http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/pdf/2009/pdf/8105x0971.pdf
IUPAC
Glossary of Terms used in Photochemistry, 3rd ed. 2006 http://iupac.org/publications/pac/79/3/0293/ IUPAC Glossary of Terms used in Physical
Organic Chemistry, Recommendations 1994. 700+ definitions. http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/gtpoc/
IUPAC 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 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.
https://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/2004/pdf/7605x1033.pdf Published Pure & Applied Chemistry 76 (5): 1033-1082, 2004
IUPAC CHEMISTRY AND
HUMAN HEALTH DIVISION,
IUPAC
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN TOXICOLOGY, 2nd EDITION
- IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 2007 Published in Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 79, No.
7, pp. 1153-1344, 2007 http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/iupacglossary/frontmatter.html IUPAC, Glossary
of terms used in theoretical organic chemistry, 1999 http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/1999/71_10_pdf/7110mirkin_1919.pdf
IUPAC Nomenclature in laboratory robotics and
automation, 1994 http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/1994/pdf/6603x0609.pdf
IUPAC Postgenomic Chemistry Pure and
Applied Chemistry 77 (9) , 1641 - 1654, 2005 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 King, Robert
C. and William D. Stansfield, Dictionary of Genetics, Oxford University
Press Lackie, JM and JAT Dow, Dictionary
of Cell & Molecular Biology, Academic Press, 3rd ed.,
1999. 7,000+ definitions.
Lewin, Benjamin Genes
IX http://biology.jbpub.com/book/genes/
2011, Extensive glossary 800 + definitions
Lyons Robert H.,
A Molecular Biology Glossary: A Quick and Dirty Reference to Terms Used in
Molecular Biology, Univ. of Michigan DNA sequencing core, 1998. 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.
MeSH Medical Subject
Headings, (PubMed Browser) National Library of Medicine, Revised annually.
MeSH has over
28,000 descriptors in MeSH with over 90,000 entry terms…." In addition to these
headings, there are more than 240,000 Supplementary Concept Records
(SCRs) within a separate file.
MeSH Qualifiers with Scope Notes,
National Library of Medicine,
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/topsubscope.html
Mouse Genome Informatics Glossary, Jackson Lab, US,
250+ definitions. 2006 http://www.informatics.jax.org/javawi2/servlet/WIFetch?page=glossaryIndex&print=no
NIH NCBI Chemicals and bioassays
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/chemicals-bioassays/
NIH NCBI National Center for Biotechnology
Information, Glossary, 1996. 13 definitions. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SCIENCE96/Glossary.html
NCBI BLAST Glossary, 2011
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62051/
NIH National Library of Medicine,
Genetics Home Reference glossary, 2018 http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ghr/glossary/Glossary
NIH NHGRI (National
Human Genome Research Institute), Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms, 250+
definitions.
https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary
Includes extended audio definitions.
NIH, Office of Extramural Research,
Grants and Funding Glossary & Acronyms 2013 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/glossary.htm
NIST National
Institute of Standards and Technology, Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures
and Problems, Paul E. Black, 1998 updated 2017
http://hissa.nist.gov/dads/terms.html
OED Oxford
English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition,
1989 plus supplements 1993-1997. 3rd edition: http://www.oed.com
Online Medical Dictionary,
MondoFacto 2008-2010 http://www.mondofacto.com/dictionary/medical.html
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/RareDiseaseList.aspx
Oxford
Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oxford University
Press, Online version 2008
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198529170.001.0001/acref-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. 8,000 plus definitions
https://www.photonics.com/EDU/Dictionary.aspx
PhyloCode Glossary,
Ohio Univ. US, 2000 - 2006. 42 definitions. http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/glossary.html
Quinion, Michael Affixes
http://www.affixes.org/
prefixes, suffixes, combining
forms and infixes.
RePORT
Expenditures and Results (RePORTER)
NIH SBIR awards
SGD
Saccharomyces Genome Database Glossary Terms,
http://seq.yeastgenome.org/help/general-help/glossary
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.
SNOMED
https://www.snomed.org/ SNOMED
International determines global standards for health terms. SWISS PROT Keywords SEE
UniPROT Knowledge Base Keywords
UCMP Glossary of
Natural History Terms: Vol. 1, Phylogenetics terms, Univ. of California,
Berkeley [US] Museum of Paleontology, 2009 http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss1phylo.html UMLS National Library of Medicine, (US) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS),
2009-2016. 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, 2018 Web search glossary,
Google http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=50187
60 definitions
Webopedia, 2018 http://www.webopedia.com/
whatis.com
Information Technology encyclopedia, 1999-2018. 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 2018 http://www.wordspy.com/
Zhang, Yong-he and Meng Zhang, A
Dictionary of Gene Technology Terms, Parthenon Publishing Group, 2001, 3,000 + definitions
Evolving terminology for emerging
technologies
Suggestions? Comments? Questions?
Mary Chitty
MSLS mchitty@healthtech.com
Last revised
January 09, 2020
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Glossary of Terms, Acronyms and Abbreviations http://www.aicpa.org/Press/DownloadableDocuments/Acronyms_and_Abbreviations.pdf
CDISC, Acronym, Abbreviations and Initials, 2010 http://www.cdisc.org/stuff/contentmgr/files/0/08a36984bc61034baed3b019f3a87139/misc/act1210_049_058_acronyms.pdf
Creighton, Thomas E., Encyclopedia
of Molecular Biology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. 4 volumes.
Cochran
Collaborative Glossary 2018. http://www.cochrane.org/glossary/5
International Society
for Stem Cell Research, Glossary,
https://www.closerlookatstemcells.org/patient-resources/stem-cell-glossary
http://www.iupac.org/objID/Article/pac7709x1641
Jackson Lab, Mouse
Genome Informatics Glossary http://www.informatics.jax.org/glossary
NIH Acronym list, 2013 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/acronym_list.htm
W3C Glossary and
Dictionary
https://www.w3.org/2003/glossary/
as of May 2010, it is no
longer maintained,
but the archived copy of its content remains available.
Back to GenomicGlossaries.com