| AVOs | acidic vesicular organelles |
| BUN | blood urea nitrogen |
| CCLE | Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia |
| CLUE | C-Map and LINCS Unified Environment |
| C-Map | Connectivity Map |
| COSMIC | Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer |
| CPDB | ConsensusPathDB |
| CTRP | Cancer Therapeutics Response Portal |
| DepMap | Dependency Map |
| DMEM | Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium |
| DMSO | dimethyl sulfoxide |
| DRIVE | Deep RNAi Interrogation of Viability Effects |
| ES | enrichment statistic |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| GDC | Genomic Data Commons |
| GOT | glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase |
| GPT | glutamate pyruvate transaminase |
| LINCS | Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures |
| MFI | median fluorescence intensity |
| MTT | 3-[4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide |
| PRISM | Profiling Relative Inhibition Simultaneously in Mixtures |
| SEMs | standard errors of the means |
| TCGA | The Cancer Genome Atlas |