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AO-VNMR Glossary, Albin Otter, Chemistry Dept. Univ. of Alberta, Canada, 2001.  http://nmr.chem.ualberta.ca/AOWWW/  About 50 terms.

[Acad Sci/Tech] Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, Harcourt, Inc. 130,000 terms+. http://www.harcourt.com/dictionary/  Part of [Onelook] 

[Allred] David, Glossary of Molecular Biology Terms, Veterinary Molecular Biology, University of Florida, 1998.  150+ definitions.   http://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/path/teach/vem5131/publish/ve00024.htm

[ALSSA] Analytical & Life Sciences System Association, Glossary of Industry Terms, 2000. About 500 definitions http://www.alssa.org/gloss.html

[Bains] William, Biotechnology A-Z, Oxford University Press, 1998. About 400 entries/definitions.  To order: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-963693-1

[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/

[Bioinformatics glossary] Dick Davies, CSI BIO 326/760 Introduction to Bioinformatics and Genomics, College of Staten Island, CUNY, Spring 2001. About 300 definitions. http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/~davis/Bioinfo_326/bioinfo_glossary.html#top  

[Biospace].com Glossary, Jessica Krakow, Expert Guide. About 1000 definitions. http://www.biospace.com/b2/gls_index.cfm

[Cambridge Scientific Abstracts] Life Sciences Thesaurus http://www.csa.com/helpV3/lscthes.html  9,400 terms

[CancerNet] National Cancer Institute, Dictionary of Cancer Terms. 2000+ terms. http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/dictionary/dictionaryh-o.html

Cambridge Healthtech Institute Genomic Reports
[CHI Bioinformatics] Bioinformatics: Getting Results in the Era of High-Throughput Genomics,  Cambridge Healthtech Institute report, Malorye A. Branca, T.V. Venkatesh, Nat Goodman, April 2001.  

[CHI Breaking Bottlenecks] Breaking the Bottlenecks: Applying Genomics Throughout Drug Discovery and Development, CHI Reports, Nov. 2001.

[CHI Commercialization] of Genomics: Challenges and Opportunities, CHI Genomic Reports, Ken Rubenstein and Mike Silver, Dec. 2001. 

[CHI Cancer] Impact of Genomics on Cancer Diagnosis, Therapeutics, and Pharmacogenomics, Cambridge Healthtech Institute report, Aya Yamamura, Feb. 2000. 

[CHI Functional Genomics] , Functional Genomics Part 1: High-Throughput and System-Wide Approaches, Cambridge Healthtech Institute report, Allan Haberman and Malorye Branca,  May 2000  

[CHI Gene Expression] Genomic-Scale Gene Expression Analysis: Advancing from DNA to Disease,  Cambridge Healthtech Institute report, Kent Vrana and Williard Freeman,  Report 6,  Nov. 2000.  

[CHI High Throughput Genomics] Genomic Report, Dec. 2001.

[CHI Microarrays]  Microarrays: Increasing the Capacity of Genomic Analysis, Cambridge Healthtech Institute report, Kent E. Vrana, Willard M. Freeman, Dennis E. Vaccaro, Beth Castrodale, May 2001. 

[CHI Predictive Pharmacogenomics] CHI Genomic Report, Jan. 2002. 

[CHI Proteomics]  Proteomics: A Key Enabling Tool for Genomics? Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Malorye Branca and Lucy J. Sannes, Genomic Pathways Report 1, 1999  

[CHI Proteomics Update] Profiting from Proteomics: High-Throughput Expression, Functional Proteomics, Protein Chips, and Protein Informatics, CHI Report, Jan. 2002.

[CHI SNPs]  Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms: Commercial and Scientific Prospects  Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Malorye Branca and Kenneth Rubenstein, Report 2, Genomic Technologies, 1999.  

[CHI SNP Update] Commercial Implications of Advances in the Identification, Mapping, and Application of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, CHI Genomic Reports, Oct. 2001. 

[CHI Structural Proteomics:] High-Throughput Approaches Fuel Drug Discovery and Development, Cambridge Healthtech Institute report, Malorye Branca, Allan Haberman, Deidre Lockwood,  2001  

[CHI Summit Pharmacogenomics:] Finding the Competitive Edge in Genetic Variation, Editor: Mike Silver, Cambridge Healthtech Institute report, May 2001.  

[CHI Summit Proteomics]: Analysis of Selected Emerging Technologies, Editor: Mike Silver, Cambridge Healthtech Institute report, Jan. 2001. 

[CHITarget Identification and Validation], Allan Haberman, Deidre Lockwood and Malorye Branca, Cambridge Healthtech Institute Report 10, June 2001.

[CHI Transforming the Pharmaceutical Industry, CHI report, July 2001.

[Cochran] Collaboration, Cochran Glossary 30+ definitions http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/glossary.htm

[Cochran Research] Glossary, Cochran Consumer Network, 1996. 100 + definitions. http://www.cochraneconsumer.com/u_consumerglossary.asp

Creighton], Thomas E., Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. 4 volumes.

DDBJ/ EMBL/ GenBank Feature Table, 2001, 100 + definition. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Documentation/FT_definitions/feature_table.html

[Delila] Glossary for Molecular Information Theory and the Delila System, Tom Schneider and Karen Lewis, Lab of Computational and Experimental Biology, NCI Frederick, US, 200. 50+ definitions.1 http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/glossary.html

[DOE], Human Genome Project Information, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Genome Glossary, 2001. 100+ definitions. http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/glossary/   Part of the Primer on Molecular Genetics http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/primer/intro.html

[Dorland’s] Illustrated Medical Dictionary, W. B. Saunders Co., 29th edition, 2000. 121,160 definitions.

[Edinburgh] Genetics Glossary, Edinburgh School of Biology, University of Edinburgh, 1997. 400+ definitions.   http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/glossary/

[Electrophoresis] Society, Glossary of Terms, 2000, 355 terms http://www.aesociety.org/AESgloss.html

Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation, Brian Tissue, Chemistry Hypermedia Project, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, US, 1995- 2000. http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/ac-meths.html

[Evidence- Based] Medicine Glossary, Centre for Evidence- Based Medicine, National Health Service, UK 2001.  30+ definitions. http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/glossary.html

[FAO Glossary] of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Food and Agricultural Organization, United Nations, 2000.  About 5000 terms. http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/X3910E/X3910E00.HTM#Toc Part of [Onelook]  

[FOLDOC] Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Denis Howe, 2001. 13,000+ terms.  http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html  Part of [Onelook] 

[Flake] Gary Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems and Adaptation. Glossary MIT Press, 2000. 280+ definitions. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/glossary-intro.html

[GeneEd] Biotechnology Glossary, Dr. Salil D. Patel and Dr. Sunil Maulik, 2000, 1000+ terms   http://www.geneed.com/glossary/index.html

[Glick], David M., Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 3,000+ definitions in 1996 paper edition. http://db.portlandpress.com/glick/search.htm

GO Term definitions, Gene Ontology Consortium TM http://www.geneontology.org/GO.defs.txt

[NHLBI] Glossary, National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute, NIH, 100 + definitions. This PDF glossary seems to have disappeared from the web, but its definitions are too good to give up.  I have a paper copy I'd be happy to send a paper copy if NHLBI wanted to repost it - the definitions are some of the best I've found. 

[ICN] Ion Channel Network, Centre for Mechanisms of Human Toxicity, Univ. of Leicester, UK, 2000. 200+ definitions  http://www.pain.med.umn.edu/csn/

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

[IUPAC Bioinorganic] 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 Biotechnology] 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 Chromatography] 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 Combinatorial] 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 Compendium] 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://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/goldbook/  Does not include Glossary of Bioinorganic Chemistry (1997) or Glossary of Medicinal Chemistry (1998). 

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

[IUPAC Medicinal Chemistry] International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Glossary of Terms used in Medicinal Chemistry Recommendations 1998. About 100 definitions. http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/medchem

[IUPAC Photochemistry] 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 Physical Chemistry] 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 Quantities] 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  http://www.ifcc-iupac.suite.dk/glossary.htm#glossary

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

[IUPAC Toxicology] International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, GLOSSARY FOR CHEMISTS OF TERMS USED IN TOXICOLOGY Clinical Chemistry Division, Commission on Toxicology, Recommendations. Pure and Appl. Chem., 65 ( 9):  2003-2122, 1993. 1200+ definitions.   http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/main.htm

[JASMS] Phil Price, Standard Definitions of Terms relating to Mass Spectrometry, Journal of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry 2(4):336-448, 1991. 175+ definitions. New compilation to be published in the next 18 months (as of Nov. 1999)

[Kaushansky] Kenneth, Glossary of Molecular Biology Terminology, Oct. 1999.  150 definitions. http://haem.nus.edu.sg/ishapd/1999/61.pdf

[King], Robert C. and William D. Stansfield, Dictionary of Genetics, Oxford University Press, 1997.  About 6600 definitions. Scheduled for new edition 2003. To order: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-963693-1

[Labvelocity.com] Glossaries, Labvelocity, Inc. various sub-glossaries including Biochemistry, Bioinformatics  (30 definitions), Cell Biology/ Immunology, Molecular Biology [see Glick] http://www.labvelocity.com/tables/index.jhtml?id=203&path=0   

[Lackie] JM and JAT Dow, Dictionary of Cell & Molecular Biology, Academic Press, 3rd ed., 1999. 7,000+ definitions.   http://on.to/dictionary

[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, 2000. 250+ definitions. http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/3ctrpgm/pmbb/mbt/GLOS.htm  

Lewin, Benjamin Genes VII, Oxford University Press, 1999. To order: http://www.oup.co.uk/best.textbooks/biochemistry/genesvii/ Online (full- text) and updated http://www.ergito.com Has extensive glossary

[Life Science Dict]ionary] University of Texas Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, 1999, Indiana Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology 1995-1998. 8,300+ definitions. http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/   Part of [Onelook] 

[Lyons] Robert H., A Molecular Biology Glossary: A Quick and Dirty Reference to Terms Used in Molecular Biology, Univ. of Michigan DNA sequencing core, 2000. 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. http://www.accessscience.com/Dictionary/

[Merriam Webster] Medical Dictionary, Merriam Webster, Inc. 1997. Via 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://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/meshbrowser?

[Micromass] Glossary (Mass Spectrometry) 180 + definitions.  http://www.micromass.co.uk/basics/Glossary.html  

[Molecular systematics] and evolution, The Natural History Museum, London  and  Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 100 + terms.  http://www.bioinf.org/molsys/glossary.html or  http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/james/glossary.html  

Mouse Genome Informatics Glossary, Jackson Lab, US, 2001m 250+ definitions. http://www.informatics.jax.org/userdocs/glossary.shtml#transversion

[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, 2000. 40 terms  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Education/BLASTinfo/glossary2.html

[NHGRI] (National Human Genome Research Institute), Glossary of Genetic Terms, 2000. 100+ definitions. http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/VIP/Glossary/pub_glossary.cgi   Includes extended audio definitions.

[NIGMS] National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Glossary, 1998. 60+ definitions. http://www.nih.gov/nigms/news/science_ed/glossary.html

Nanotechnology glossary, NanotechNews.com, 200+ definitions http://www.nanotechnews.com/nano/glossary

[Nill] Kimball R. Glossary of Biotechnology Terms. Technomic Publishing Co., Inc., Second edition, 1998.  2000+ definitions.  http://biotechterms.org/sourcebook/index.phtml  

[NIST] National Institute of Standards and Technology, Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures and Problems, Paul E. Black 2001, 1300+  terms  http://hissa.nist.gov/dads/terms.html

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

[OMD] Online Medical Dictionary, Dr. Graham Dark, Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB 1997-2000. 65,000+ definitions. http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd/index.html   Part of [Onelook] http://onelook.com/index.html

[Onelook] Dictionaries, Bob Ware http://onelook.com/index.html  Index to 700+ online dictionaries.

[ORD] Office of Rare Diseases, NIH  Terms & definitions, 2001. 350 definitions. http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/glossary_a-e.html   Part of [Onelook] 

[Oxford] Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oxford University Press, Over 17,000 main entries. To order: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-850673-2

[Photonics] Dictionary, Laurin Publishing Co. Inc. 5500 definitions. http://www.photonics.com/dictionary/  Part of [Onelook] 

[PhRMA] Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Genomics Lexicon, 2000. 400+ definitions. http://genomics.phrma.org/lexicon/index.html

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

[Pittsburgh] Tissue Engineering Initiative, Glossary,2000, 73 terms    http://www.ptei.org/about_te/glossary.html

[Promega Amplification] Dictionary  http://www.promega.com/amplification/glossary.html  80+ definitions

[Promega Simple] Glossary of Biotechnical Terms http://www.promega.com/glossary/  150+ definitions.

[Schlindwein] Birgid, Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms, 1999. 600+ 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 Genomics glossaries.

SGD [Saccharomyces Genome Database] Glossary Terms, Stanford Univ., US, 2000, About 150 definitions. http://genome-www.stanford.edu/Saccharomyces/help/glossary.html

[SNP Consortium] Glossary, 2001. 30+ definitions. http://snp.cshl.org

SWISS-PROT keywords http://www.expasy.ch/cgi-bin/keywlist.plSwiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva Switzerland and European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK, 200, 800 + definitions.

[Statsoft, Inc.] Statistics glossary, Electronic Statistics Textbook, Tulsa OK, US 2001 http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

[Tollenaere] JP, EE Moret, Hyperglossary of [Molecular Modelling in Drug Design] Terminology, Utrecht University, 1996. 150+ definitions. http://wwwcmc.pharm.uu.nl/webcmc/glossary.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/   

Visible Genetics NewsRoom Press Kit Glossary of  Terms http://www.visgen.com/News_Room/Press_Kit/glossary_of_terms.shtm

[Wagner] John A. Dictionary for logic and experimental design, 2000. 200+ definitions. http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jawagne/  

[whatis.com] Information Technology encyclopedia. About 3,400 + definitions. http://whatis.techtarget.com/   Part of [Onelook] 

WWW Acronym & Abbreviation Server, Peter Flynn, University College, Cork, Ireland18,000+ definitions.  http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms/acro.html

[World] Wide Words: investigating international English from a British viewpoint, Michael Quinion.1100 + definitions. http://www.quinion.com/words/index.htm   Part of [OneLook]  

[ZD Webopedia] Ziff-Davis Webopedia  http://www.zdwebopedia.com/   Part of [Onelook]

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