English: Abbreviation

A.
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AC alternating current
ACF autocorrelation fucntion
ACT Application Compatibility Toolkit
ADE adenine
ADSL Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Loop
AFM Atomic Force Microscope
AGP Accelerate Graphic Port
AIX Advanced Interactive Executive
AMU Atomic Mass Unit
ANSI American National Standards Institute
APC Armored Personnel Carrier
API Application Programming Interface
ASME the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASP Active Service Pages
ATA Actual Time of Arrival
ATP Adenosine Triphosphate
AUA anisotropic united atoms
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B.
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BA Bachelor of Arts
bash the GNU Bourne-Again Shell
BFP Biomembrane Force Probe
BioCoRE Biological Collaborative Research Environment
BIOS Baisc Input Output System
BJC British Journal of Cancer
BLAS Basic Linear Algebar Subroutines
BM Bachelor of Medicine
BYU Brigham Yong University
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C.
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C3 Cluster Command and Control
CAM Cell Adhesion Molecules
CAS Chinese Academy of Science
CAT 5 CATogory 5
CCG Chemistry Computing Group
CDH Custom Display Host
CDT Central Daylight Time
CHARMm Chemistry at Harvard Molecular Mechanics
cgnr Charge Group NumbeR
CIC commander in chief
CM-5 Connection Machine
CMBI Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics
CO Commanding Officer
COM Component Object Model
CPU Central Processing Unit
CR carriage return
CR-LF
CR/LF
crond Chronological Daemon
csh basic C Shell
CST Central Standard Time
CUPS Common UNIX Printing System
CVS Capcom vs SNK
CVS Concurrent Versions System
CYT cytosine
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D.
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DC Dielectric constant
DC Digital Camera
DC direct current
DDDC Drug Discovery and Design Center
DFM Dynamic Force Microscopy
DFSG Debian Free Software Guidelines
DFT Density Functional Theory
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIG Digoxigenin
DM Display Manager
DMSO Dimethyl Sulphoxide
DNA deoxyribonucleic acid
DNS Domain Name Server
DOCT Distributed Object Computation Testbed
DOE Department of Energy
DOF Degree of Freedom
DOS Disk Operating System
DPI Dot(s) per Inch
DPK Debian Package
DPPC dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine
DQ Dragon Quest
DQS Distributed Queuing System
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSSP Dictionary of Secondary Structure in Proteins
DTD Data type description
DTD Document Type Definition
DVI DeVice Independent file
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E.
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EAT Effective Algebraic Topology
ECM extracellular matrix
ED Essential Dynamics
EE Emotion Engine
eg Exempli gratia
EGM Electronic Gaming Monthly
EM Electron Microscope
EM Energy Minimization
EMACS Editor MACroS
EMCC European Molecular Computing Consortium
EMBO European Molecular Biology Organization
EMBS Engineering of Medicine and Biology Society
EOF End of File
EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
EPR Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
EQ Educational Quotient
ER endoplasmic reticulum
ESC Escape Character
ESI Electrospray Ionization
ET Eastern Time
ET extraterrestrial
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
eth Ethernet
EU the European Union
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F.
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FCCC Fox Chase Cancer Center
FE Fire Emblem
FFM Focus Follow Mouse
FEP Free Energy Perturbation
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FFT Final Fantasy Tactics
FIFO first-in, first-out
FIFO Floating Input - Floating Output
FLN Faculty of Language in a Narrow Sense
FORTRAN Formula Translation
FPP Full Packaged Product
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
fsck file system check
FSF Free Software Foundation
FTP File Tranfer Protocol
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G.
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g++ GNU C++ compiler
g77 GNU Fortran77 compiler
GAP GIMP Animation Package
GaTech Georgia Institute of Technology
gcc GNU C Compiler
GCC GNU Compiler Collection
gdm Gnome Display Manager
GER Guaranteed Envelope Resources
GIMP Graphics Image Manipulation Program
gmond Ganglia Monitoring Daemon
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GNOME GNU Network Object Model Environment
GNU GNU is not Unix
GPL GNU General Public License
GRE Graduate Record Examination
grep global regular expression and print
GROMACS Groningen Machine for Chemical Simulations
GRUB Grand Unified Boot Loader
GTK GIMP Tool Kit
GTM Graduate Texts in Mathematics
GUA guanine
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUNDAM General Unilateral Neuro-link Dispersive Autonomic Maneuver
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H.
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HAC Hybrid Atomic/Continuum method
HGP Human Genome Project
HK Hong Kong
HKUST Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
HP Hit Point
HPCC High Performance Computing Cluster
HPP Hamiltonian Path Problem
HQ Headquarters
HRTEM High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope
HSB high school and beyond
HT hyper threading
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocal
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I.
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IA32 the 32 bit Intel Architecture
IBE Institute of Biological Engineering
IBM International Business Machines Corporation
IBPC Institute de Biology Physics Chemistry
ICMSEC Institute of Computational Mathematics of Science-Engineering Computing
ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IFF Identification Friend or Foe
IFM Interfacial Force Microscope
IIRC If I remember correctly
IIS Internet Information Server
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
IMP Internet Messaging Program
intel intelligence
I/O Input/Output
IP Internet Protocol
IPC Inter Process Communication
IPG Immobilized PH Gradient
IQ Intelligence Quotient
IR infra-red
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISP Internet Service Provider
IT Information Technology
ITS Incompatible Timesharing System
IUB International Union of Biochemistry
IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
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J.
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JMPS Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
JUMNA Junction Minimization of Nucleic Acids
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K.
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Kate KDE Advanced Text Editor
KDE K Desktop Environment
kdm KDE Display Manager
ksh Korn Shell
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L.
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L-BFGS low-memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno approach
LAA Locally Administered Address
LADH liver alcohol dehydrogenase
LAN Local Area Network
LANANA Linux Assigned Names And Numbers Authority
LBX Low Bandwidth X
LDP Linux Documentation Project
LF linefeed
LIE Linear Interaction Energy
LIFO last-in, first-out
LILO LInux Loader
LINCS LINear Constraint Solver
LMTAS Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
LSF Load Sharing Facility
LSQ Least Squares fit
LSSC Large Scale Scientific Computing
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M.
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MALDI Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization
MATLAB Matrix Laboratory
MBA Master of Business Administration
MBR Master Boot Record
MCP Molecular Computation Project
MD SEGA mega drive
MD Molecular Dynamics
MDA Mail Delivery Agent
MD Molecular Dynamics
misc. Miscellaneous
MIA missing in action
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MKL Intel Math Kernel Library
MM Molecular Mechanics
MO Molecular Orbital
modem MOdulator DEModulator
MOE Molecular Operating Environment
MP Magic Point
MPA Master of Public Accounting
MPA Master of Public Administration
MPI Max Planck Institute
MPI Message Passing Interface
MS Mass Spectrometry
MS Microsoft
MSCS Microsoft Cluster Server
MSD Mean Square Displacement
MTA Mail Transport Agent
MUA Mail user Agent
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N.
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NA Nucleic Acid
NAN not-a-number
NAS IBM Network Attached Storage
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
N.B. Nota bene
NCBI National Center for Biotechnical Informatics
NCI the National Cancer Institute
NCRR the National Center for Research Resources
NCSA National Center of Supercomputing Application
NEB New England Biolabs
NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System
NFS Network File System
NGDC National Geophysical Data Center
NIBIB the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
NIC Network Interface Card
NIGMS National Institute of General Medical Sciences
NIH National Institute of Health
NINDS the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
NIS Network Information Service
NLM the National Library of Medicine
NMA Normal Mode Analysis
NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NOE Notice of Exception
NOE Nuclear Overhauser Effect
NSF National Science Foundation
NT nanotube
NT nucleotide
nvi new vi
NYU New York University
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O.
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OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OIT Office of Information Technology
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
ONIOM Our Own N-layered Integrated molecular Orbital and molecular Mechanics
OOP object-oriented programming
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OS Operating System
OSI Open Source Initiative
OSI Open System Interconnect Reference Model
OSS Open Source Software
OSS Open Source System
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P.
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PAGE Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
PB Phosphate Buffer
PBC periodic boundary condition
PBC potential based continuum
PBS Portable Batch System
PC Personal Computer
PCR the Polymerase Chain Reaction
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDB Protein Data Bank
PDF Portable Document Format
PDF Probability Distribution Function
PEG Poly (ethylene glycol)
PF Power Forward
PG Point Guard
pg Portland Group
PhD Philosophiae Doctor, Doctor of Philosophy
PHP Hyper Text Pre-processor
PI principal investigator
PID Personal Identifier
PID Process Identifier
PIN Personal Identification Number
PKU Peking University
PME Particle-Mesh Ewald electrostatics
PME Power Management Event
PMF potential of mean force
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PNNL Pacific Northwest National Lab
POP Post Office Protocol
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface
POST Problem Oriented Sequence analysis Tools
ppm part per million
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PPPM Particle-Particle Particle-Mesh algorithm
PPPoE PPP over Ethernet
PR MD Position Restrained MD
PRC People's Republic of China
PS Play Station
PS Postscript
PS/2 Personal System/2
PSC Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
PSF Protein Structure File
PSS polystyrene sulfonate
PTM Post-Translational Modification
PVP polyvinyl pyrrolidine
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Q.
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QSAR Quantitative Structure-Activity Reactions
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R.
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RAM Random Access Memory
RB Ryckaert-Bellemans potential
RCS Revision Control System
RDF Radial Distribution Function
RESP Restrained Electrostatic Potential
RFB Remote Framebuffer
Rg Radius of Gyration
RGB Red, Green, Blue
RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
RJ 11 Registered Jack 11 (for modem)
RJ 45 Registered Jack 45 (for ethernet)
RMS Root Mean Square
RMSD Root Mean Square Deviation
RMSF Root Mean Square Fluctuation, ie. standard deviation
RNA ribonucleic acid
ROM Read Only Memory
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPM Redhat Package Manager
RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adleman cipher algorithm
RTF Rich Text Format
RTFM Read the Fucking Manual
RTM Release to Manufacture
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S.
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SA simulated annealing
SAGE Serial Analysis of Gene Expression
SAS Solvent accessible surface
SAT satisfaction problem
SCCAS Supercomputing Center, Chinese Academy of Science
SCCDFTB self-consistent-charge-density-functional-tight-binding
SCI Scientific Citation Index
SCP Secure Copy
SCP Secure Copy Protocol
SD Stochastic Dynamics
SDS Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
sed Stream Editor
SEIRA Surface Enhanced InfraRed Absorption
SEM Scanning Electron Microscope
SF Small Forward
SG Shooting Guard
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
sh Bourne Shell
SIB Swiss Insitute of Bioinformatics
SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLU St. Lawrence University
SMB Server Message Block
SMD Steered Molecular Dynamics
SMP Symmetric Multi-Processors
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNP Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
SPC Simple Point Charge water
SPE Synergistic Processor Elements
SPM Scanning Probe Microscopy
SPR Surface Plasmon Resonance
SSH Secure Shell
ST Standard Time
STD standerd
STEM Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope
STFN Search the Fucking Net
STM Scanning Tunneling electron Microscopy
STS Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
SUS Software Update Service
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T.
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TCAEP the Constants and Equations Pages
TCBG Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
tcsh exTened C Shell
TEM Transmission Electron Microscope
THY thymine
TiTech Tokyo Institute of Technology
TM Trademark
TMD Territorial Missile Defence
TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language
TP translocation pore
TSRI The Scripps Research Institute
TSU Tsinghua University
TWAS Third World Academy of Sciences
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U.
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UB Urey-Bradley angle vibration for CHARMm
UC University of California
UCB UC Berkelay
UCB Unit Control Block
UCB Universal Character Buffer
UCL University of College London
UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCRL University of California, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
UCSD University of California at San Diego
UDI Uniform Driver Interface
UDV User Defined Variable
UFL University of Florida
UIC University of Illinois at Chicago
UIUC University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
UMD University of maryland
UNSW University of New South Wales
UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply
URA uracil
USA United States of America
USB Universal Serial Bus
USD United States dollars
UTC Universal Time Coordinated
UV ultraviolet
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V.
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VA IBM VisualAge compiler set
VBA Visual Basic for Applications
VGA Video Graphics Array
vim Vi IMitation
vile vi like emacs
vim Vi IMproved
VLK Volume Licensing Key
VLO Volume Licensing for Organizations
VMD Visual Molecular Dynamics
VNC Virtual Network Computing
VPN Virtual Private Network
VST Visual Studio Technology
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W.
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WAN Wide Area Network
WAU Wageningen Agricultural University in Neterlands
WHAM Weighted Histogram Analysis Method
WHO World Health Organization
WOL Wake on LAN
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
w/o without
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X.
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xdm X Display Manager
XDMCP X Display Manager Control Protocol
xfs X Font Server
xlC VA C compiler
xlF VA Fortran compiler
XML eXtensible Markup Language
xrdb X server resource database
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Y.
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YaST Yet another Setup Tool
YOU YAST Online Update
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Z.
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ZAFT Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty
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