| IM | Inner Membrane |
| OM | Outer Memebrane |
| LC | Liquid Chromatography |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| GFM | Global Membrane Fraction |
| MudPIT | Liquid Chromatography |
| SH | Shaving |
| NP | Carboxymethyl-dextran coated magnetic nanoparticles |
| SpC | Spectral Count |
| ntaSpC | total average Spectral Count normalized on protein length |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| FDR | False Discovery Rate |
| T-IM | Trans Inner Membrane peptide |
| EXP-IM | Inner Membrane Exposed peptide |
| T-OM | Trans Outer Membrane peptide |
| EXP-OM | Outer Membrane Exposed peptide |
| MH | Mueller Hinton |
| OD | Optical Density |
| SCX | Strong Cation Exchange |
| RP | Reverse Phase |
| OMP | Outer Membrane Proteins |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| TBDTs | TonB-dependent transporters |