| ALDH | aldehyde dehydrogenase |
| ANOVA | analysis of variance |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| BAAA | BODIPY-aminoacetaldehyde |
| bFGF | basic fibroblast growth factor |
| BME | beta-mercaptoethanol |
| BSA | bovine serum albumin |
| CPM | counts per million |
| CSC | cancer stem cell |
| DEAB | 4-diethylaminobenzaldehyde |
| DMEM/F12 | Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium/Ham’s F12 |
| EOC | epithelial ovarian cancer |
| FACS | fluorescence-activated cell sorting |
| FBS | fetal bovine serum |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| GSEA | gene set enrichment analysis |
| hEGF | human epidermal growth factor |
| HEPES | 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid |
| HGSOC | high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma |
| IC50 | half-maximal inhibitory concentration |
| ITSS | insulin-transferrin-sodium selenite supplement |
| ML | monolayer |
| NES | normalized enrichment score |
| OCCC | ovarian clear cell carcinoma |
| PAC | paclitaxel (suffix denoting paclitaxel-resistant sublines) |
| PVDF | polyvinylidene fluoride |
| SDS | sodium dodecyl sulfate |
| SPH | spheroid |
| STD | standard (media) |
| STR | short tandem repeat |
| TCAG | The Centre for Applied Genomics |
| TMM | trimmed mean of M-values |
| TPM | transcripts per million |
| ULA | ultra-low attachment |