| 2-DE | 2-dimensional electrophoresis |
| 5Pseq | 5′-monophosphorylated ends sequencing |
| AHA | Azidohomoalanine |
| BONCAT/QuaNCAT | Bio-Orthogonal/Quantitative Non-Canonical Amino acid Tagging |
| CDS | Coding sequence |
| CVN | Cyanovirin-N, an antiviral protein originated from cyanobacteria |
| FRET | Fluorescence resonance energy transfer |
| GMUCT | Genome-wide mapping of uncapped and cleaved transcripts |
| EVI | Translation elongation speed |
| FDR | False discover rate |
| HPP | The Human Proteome Project |
| miRNA | MicroRNAs |
| MS | Mass spectrometry |
| ncRNA | Non-coding RNAs |
| NCT | Nascent chain tracking |
| NGS | Next-generation sequencing |
| NGD | No-go decay |
| NMD | Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay |
| NMR | Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| NSD | Non-stop decay |
| ORF | Open reading frame |
| PARE | parallel analysis of RNA ends |
| PUNCH-P | PUromycin-associated Nascent CHain Proteomics |
| pSILAC | Pulsed-SILAC, Pulsed Stable Isotope Labelling by Amino acids |
| RFP | Ribosome footprints, equivalent to ribosome protected fragments, RPFs |
| Ribo-seq | Ribosome profiling |
| RNC | Ribosome nascent-chain complex |
| RNC-mRNA | Translating mRNAs |
| RNC-seq | Full-length translating mRNA profiling |
| ROS | Reactive oxygen species |
| SSU | Small subunit of ribosome |
| TR | Translation initiation efficiency |
| TRAP-seq | Translating ribosome affinity purification sequencing |
| tRNA-seq | Full-length tRNA sequencing |
| UTR | Untranslated regions of genes |