| BIC | Bayesian Information Criterion |
| CASP | Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction |
| DB | Davies-Bouldin |
| GMM | Gaussian Mixture Model |
| HEA | Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm |
| lRMSD | least Root-Mean-Squared-Deviation |
| PDB | Protein Data Bank |
| PSP | Protein Structure Prediction |
| SSE | Sum of Squared Errors |
| USR | Ultrafast Shape Recognition |
| GROMACS | GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations |