| ARM | Association Rule Mining |
| BLAST | Basic Local Alignment Search Tool |
| BV-BRC | Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| EMBOSS | The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite |
| HA | Hemaglutinin |
| IAV | Influenza A Virus |
| MI | Mutual Information |
| ML | Maximum Likelihood |
| NA | Neuraminidse |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| NGS | Next Generation Sequencing |
| RBS | Receptor Binding Site |
| SA | Sialic Acids |