| ADC | Antibody drug conjugate |
| AntiSMASH | Antibiotics and secondary metabolite analysis shell |
| BAC | Bacterial artificial chromosome |
| BGC | Biosynthetic gene cluster |
| CATCH | Cas9-assisted targeting of chromosome segment |
| CRISPR-Cas | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR associated protein |
| DCas | Dead Cas |
| DSB | Double-strand break |
| E. coli | Escherichia coli |
| sNCBI | National center for biotechnology information |
| NP | Natural product |
| NRPS | Nonribosomal peptide synthetase |
| PKS | Polyketide synthase |
| RiPPs | Ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides |
| S. cerevisiae | Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| TAR | Transformation-associated recombination |
| U.S. FDA | United States Food and Drug Administration |