| Acronym | Meaning |
| MIDAS | Metal Ion-dependent Adhesion Site |
| SPM | Scanning Probe Microscopy |
| MCTDH | Multiconfigurational Time-dependent Hartree (theory) |
| EMII | Enriched Mantle Component 2 (of S. R. Hart |
| PBP | Penicillin Binding Protein |
| FACE | Fluorophore-assisted Carbohydrate Electrophoresis |
| NITM | Normalized Irreducible Tensorial Matrix |
| NLM | National Library Of Medicine |
| FWM | Four-wave Mixing |
| TIGER | Triangulation-Identification For The Genetic Evaluation Of Risk |