| DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid |
| DBMS | database management system |
| RDBMS | relational database management system |
| ADT | abstract data types |
| BLOB | binary large objects |
| A | adenine |
| T | thymine |
| C | cytosine |
| G | guanine |
| RNA | ribonucleic acid |
| U | uracil |
| ORF | open reading frame |
| Met | methionine |
| URF | unidentified reading frame |
| CDS | coding sequence |
| GC content | guanine and cytosine content |
| RefSeq | reference sequence database of NCBI |
| SW score | Smith&Waterman score |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| Pfam | Protein Family Database |
| GO | Gene Ontology Resource |
| PLPGSQL | Programming Language PostgreSQL |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| TB | Terabytes |
| GB | Gigabytes |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnological Information |
| ETL | Extract, Transform and Load |
| PWD | Protein World Database |
| PK | Primary Key |