| NGS | Next Generation Sequencing |
| RNA-seq | RNA Sequencing |
| RIN | RNA Integrity Number |
| rRNA | ribosomal RNA |
| mRNA | micro RNA |
| siRNA | small interfering RNA |
| piRNA | piwi-interacting RNA |
| cDNA | complementary DNA |
| dUTPs | deoxy-UTPs |
| UDG | Uracil-N-Glycosylase |
| SBS | Sequencing by synthesis |
| BAM | Binary of SAM |
| IGV | Integrative Genomic Viewer |
| RPKM | Reads per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads |
| FPKM | Fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads |
| TPM | Transcripts per million |
| TMM | Trimmed mean of M-values |
| DEG | Differentially Expressed Gene |
| ChIP-seq | Chromatin Immunoprecipitation and Sequencing |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
| ChIP qPCR | ChIP quantitative realtime PCR |
| ENCODE | Encyclopedia of DNA Elements |
| BWA | Burrow Wheelers alignment |
| GFP | Green fluorescence protein |
| YFP | Yellow fluorescence protein |
| SET | Single-ends tags |
| PET | Paired-ends tags |
| JA | Jasmonic acid |
| CRISPR | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |