| 3-D | Three-Dimensional |
| atm | Atmospheric Pressure |
| CASTp | Computer Atlas of Surface Topology of Proteins |
| CHARMM | Chemistry at Harvard Macromolecular Mechanics |
| FRED | Fast Rigid Exhaustive Docking |
| K | Kelvin |
| MS | Molecular Surface |
| NAMD | NAnoscale Molecular Dynamics |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| PDB | Protein Data Bank |
| PDFs | Probability Functions |
| ps and fs | Pico- and Femtoseconds |
| RCSB | Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics |
| RMSD | Root-Mean-Square Deviation |
| SEA | Staphylococcal Enterotoxin A |
| SEB | Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B |
| SEs | Staphylococcal Enterotoxins |