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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.   Journal links

Websites and Books
454 Glossary, Roche Diagnostics 1996-2011 http://www.454.com/glossary/index.asp  PCR and sequencing

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 Glossary of Terms, Acronyms and Abbreviations http://www.aicpa.org/Press/DownloadableDocuments/Acronyms_and_Abbreviations.pdf

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.  To order: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-852498-6  

Bandolier EBM Evidence Based Medicine Glossary  http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/glossary.html

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/

BioLINC Glossary, NHLBI https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/glossary/ 

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Personal Health Records Glossary,  http://www.bcbs.com/healthcare-partners/personal-health-records/phr-glossary.html

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/ 

Cochran Collaborative Glossary  2010. http://www.cochrane.org/glossary/5 

Contract Pharma Glossary of Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Terms, revised annually 500 plus terms http://www.contractpharma.com/glossary 

CRISP Thesaurus, NIH, US See RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER)  

DDBJ/ EMBL/ GenBank Feature Table, Version 6.7, 2007, 100 + definition. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Documentation/FT_definitions/feature_table.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., 29th edition, 2002  

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.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 

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 

Insight Pharma Reports, $1,000 Genome: Trends in Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies 2007   

Insight Pharma Reports Advanced Drug Delivery Technologies 2011

Insight Pharma Reports, Advances in Lead Optimization Accelerating Drug Discovery and Development, 2003 

Insight Pharma Reports Adaptive Clinical Trials: Innovations in clinical trial design, management and analysis, 2007 

Insight Pharma Reports, Antibiotic R&D: Resolving the Paradox between Unmet Medical Need and Commercial Incentive 2008

Insight Pharma Reports, Autism: A Developmental Disorder That Is Massively on the Rise. Unmet Needs, Part of Sleeper diseases: Forecast and Assessment of Neglected Disease Market Opportunity, 2006 

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

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

Insight Pharma Reports, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, 2009

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, 2005 http://www.insightpharmareports.com/reports/2005/47_Biomarkers/overview.asp 

Insight Pharma Reports, Blood Brain Barrier: Bridging options for drug discovery and development, 2008

Insight Pharma Reports, Cancer Biomarkers: Adoption is Driving Growth, 2008

Insight Pharma Reports, Cancer Diagnostics: Technology and Business Trends, 2005 

Insight Pharma Reports, Cancer Genomics: Revolutionizing Treatment and Reshaping Markets through Targeted Therapies, 2003 

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 Forecasting A Novel Bayesian Tool for predicting Phase III Outcomes 2007  

Insight Pharma Reports,  Clinical Genomics: The Impact of Genomics on Clinical Trials and Medical Practice, 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, Conducting Clinical Trials in Europe: An insider's analysis, 2008

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 Reports, Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing, 2009 

Insight Pharma, Disease Related Biomarkers: Their Potential in Patient Screening, Prognosis and Stratification, 2007  

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: Dawn of a new era? 2008

Insight Pharma Reports GPCRs: Mining the Richest Vein in Drug Discovery, 2003 

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, Immunotherapies & Vaccines for Cancer & Infectious Diseases, 2008 

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, 2003   

Insight Pharma Reports, Life Sciences Informatics: From Data to Drugs, 2003    

Insight Pharma Reports, Medicinal Chemistry for drug discovery: Significance of recent trends, 2009

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, 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, microRNAs: Commercial Products on the horizon, 2008

Insight Pharma Reports: Molecular Diagnostics: Double Digit Growth Anticipated  2011

Insight Pharma Reports, Molecular Imaging in Drug R&D and Medical Practice: Technologies, Applications, Markets, 2008 

Insight Pharma Reports, Monoclonal Antibodies in the Pipeline, 2011

Insight Pharma Reports, Multiplex assays in Translational Medicine: Technologies, Applications, and Future Directions, 2008

Insight Pharma Reports, Multiplex assays, technologies, applications and markets, 2006   

Insight Pharma Reports.  Neurodegenerative Diseases: Next-Generation Drugs for Four Major Disorders: Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 2008

Insight Pharma Reports, New paradigm for clinical development: Clinical Trial in 2015, 2006 

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

Insight Pharma Reports Obesity drug pipeline: Developing therapies for a complex disease, 2008  

Insight Pharma Reports, Oncogenomics: The future of cancer care, 2006   

Insight Pharma Reports,  Ophthalmological Therapeutics: Pipelines, Delivery Technologies, and Markets, 2008  

Insight Pharma Reports, Outlook for DNA Microarrays: Emerging Applications and Insights on Optimizing Microarray Studies, 2002  

Insight Pharma Reports  Outlook for Predictive Safety Technologies, 2006  

Insight pharma Reports, Post-genomic Target Validation: Next Generation Approaches & Tools for Optimizing Target Selection,  2003.   

Insight Pharma Reports, Potential Breakthroughs in Neurotherapeutics: Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Schizophrenia, 2006 

Insight Pharma Reports, Pharmaceutical R&D Productivity: The Path to Innovation, 2005  

Insight Pharma Reports, Pharmacodiagnostics: Technologies, Competition and Market Models, 2005 

Insight Pharma Reports, Pharmacogenomics: Delivering on the promise, 2009 

Insight Biopharma Reports, Powering Discovery through Target Evaluation: Moving beyond the validation paradigm, 2005 

Insight Pharma Reports, Predictive Pharmacogenomics Revolutionizing Health Care, 2002.   

Insight Pharma Reports, Protease inhibitors: Innovation drives drug pipeline, 2009 

Insight Pharma Reports,  Proteomics Survey, 2003     

Insight Pharma Reports, Proteomics: Current State and Future Directions, 2006 

Insight Pharma Reports, Prospects for Commercialization of Human Monoclonal Antibodies, 2002    

Insight Pharma Reports,  RNAi Therapeutics Challenges in drug development and delivery, 2005    

Insight Pharma Reports, Sleeper diseases: Forecast and Assessment of Neglected Disease Market Opportunity, 2006 

Insight Pharma Reports, Specialty Pharmaceuticals: Driving Industry Growth into the Next Decade, 2006 

Insight Pharma Reports, Stem cells come of age, 2008

Insight Pharma Reports,  Strategic Considerations for the US Pharmaceutical Industry  2015, 2005 

Insight Pharma Reports, Successful Pharmacogenomics Business Models  2003 

Insight Pharma Reports, Systems biology: A disruptive technology, 2008

Insight Pharma Reports, Targeting RNA in Drug Development Emerging Tools & Therapeutics  2002   

Insight Pharma Reports,  Toxicogenomics: and Predictive Toxicology: Market and Business Outlook  2004  

Intel, Silicon Photonics Glossary, 2010 http://techresearch.intel.com/newsdetail.aspx?Id=19 

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  http://www.ispe.org/glossary 

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.iupac.org/publications/pac/1993/pdf/6504x0819.pdf 

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 Biomolecular Screening, IUPAC Recommendations 2008  provisional recommendations about 150 terms defined.

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 Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Postgenomic Chemistry  Pure and Applied Chemistry 77 (9) , 1641 - 1654, 2005 
http://www.iupac.org/objID/Article/pac7709x1641
  

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
  
IUPAC Provisional glossary Biomolecular Screening  2008

IUPAC 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, 3rd 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 

Lewin, Benjamin Genes IX  http://biology.jbpub.com/book/genes/  2011, 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 since 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  http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/chemhealth/coh.pdf  

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, 2nd edition, 1989 plus supplements 1993-1997. 3rd edition:  http://www.oed.com

Office of Extramural Research, NIH Glossary & Acronyms 2009  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/glossary.htm   Acronym list, 2008  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/acronym_list.htm 

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, 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

RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER)  NIIH, Replaces CRISP

Roche Glossary, . F Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, 2011 http://www.roche.com/about_roche/glossary.htm  

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

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

SWISS PROT Keywords SEE UniPROT Knowledge Base Keywords

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, 2011

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 http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms 

XenoTech LLC, Glossary  http://xenotechllc.com/Knowledge/Glossary/ 

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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