BAM	Binary Alignment Map. File format for sequence alignment
CS	Contralaterality Score
CRAN	The Comprehensive R Archive Network
DEG	Differently expressed gene
Fastq	File format for sequencing data
FDR	False Discovery Rate
HC	Hierarchical clustering
HcKmer	Hierarchical clustering of DNA k-mer counts
Mm	Mus musculus
Phred score	Quality score for identification of nucleotides in sequencing data
QC	Quality control
RNAseq	Whole transcriptome sequencing
R, C	Computer programming languages
sd	standard deviation