| AA | Amino acid |
| ABC | ATP-binding cassette |
| AIP | Auto-inducing peptides |
| AMR | Antimicrobial resistance |
| ARO | Antibiotic-resistant organism |
| bp | Base pair |
| CARD | Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database |
| Cas | CRISPR-associated genes |
| CDS | Coding sequence |
| CLSI | Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute |
| CRISPR | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| GRAS | Generally recognized as safe |
| IS | Insertion sequence |
| MFS | Major facilitator superfamily |
| MHA | Mueller–Hinton agar |
| MHB | Mueller–Hinton broth |
| MIC | Minimum inhibitory concentration |
| MPH | Macrolide phosphotransferase |
| PGAP | Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline |
| PHASTER | Phage Search Tool Enhanced Release |
| RAST | Rapid annotations using subsystems technology |
| RiPPs | Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides |
| SMR | Small multidrug resistance |
| VF | Virulence factor |
| VFDB | Virulence Factor Database |
| WGS | Whole-genome sequencing |