| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| BHI | Brain Heart Infusion |
| CF | Cystic fibrosis |
| CID | Collision-induced dissociation |
| GC | Gas chromatography |
| HCA | Hierarchical clustering analysis |
| HMDB | Human Metabolome Database |
| HRMS | High-resolution mass spectrometry |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genome |
| LC-MS/MS | Liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry analysis |
| LOOCV | leave-one-out cross-validation |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| PC | Principal component |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| RFE | Recursive feature elimination |
| SESI | Secondary electrospray ionization |
| SESI-MS | Secondary electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry |
| SESI-HRMS | Secondary electrospray ionization-high resolution mass spectrometry |
| SVM | Support vector machine algorithm |
| SVM-RFE | Recursive feature elimination with SVM |
| VOC | Volatile organic compound |
| TIC | Total ion chromatogram |
| TOF | Time of flight |