a.a.	amino acid
3B	Bayesian analysis of the blinking and bleaching
BiFC	bimolecular fluorescence complementation
cp	circular permutation
CRISPR	clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
EGF	epidermal growth factor
ESI	entropy-based super-resolution imaging
FKBP	FK506-binding protein
FLINC	fluorescence fluctuation increase by contact
FP	fluorescent protein
FRB	FKBP-rapamycin binding domain
FRC	Fourier ring correlation
FRET	Förster resonance energy transfer
FWHM	full width at half maximum
GFP	Aequorea Victoria green fluorescence protein
HBR	hydroxybenzylidene rhodanine
HILO	highly inclined and laminated optical sheet
JF646	Janelia Fluor 646
MUSICAL	multiple signal classification algorithm
N/A	not applicable
PAINT	points accumulation for imaging nanoscale topography
PALM	photo-activated localization microscopy
PKA	protein kinase A
Pol II	RNA polymerase II
PPI	Protein-protein interaction
PSF	point spread function
psFRET	photoswitching FRET
ptFP	phototransformable fluorescent protein
PYP	photoactive yellow protein
RESOLFT	reversible saturable optical fluorescence transitions
S/N	signal-to-noise ratio
SCORE	spatial covariance reconstructive
SIM	structured illumination microscopy
sm-FRET	single-molecule photoactivation FRET
SMLM	single-molecule localization microscopy
SOFI	super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging
SRM	super-resolution light microscopy
SRRF	super-resolution radial fluctuations
STED	stimulated emission depletion
TALEN	transcription activator-like effector nucleases
tcPALM	time-correlated photo-activated localization microscopy
TFFC	three-fragment fluorescence complementation
TIRF	total internal reflection fluorescence
Tet	tetracycline
UV	ultraviolet