| BICCN | BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network |
| BGM | Bayesian Gaussian Mixture |
| BRAQUE | Bayesian Reduction for Amplified Quantization in UMAP Embedding |
| CyBorgh | (not an abbreviation, onomatopoeic similarity with Simone Borghesi) |
| DBSCAN | Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise |
| Dirichlet process | DP |
| FFPE | Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded |
| HCA | Human Cell Atlas |
| HDBSCAN | Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise |
| HubMAP | Human Biomolecular Atlas |
| LNS | Lognormal Shrinkage |
| MAD | Median Absolute Deviation |
| MDS | Multidimensional Scaling |
| MILAN | Multiple Iterative Labeling by Antibody Neodeposition |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| t-SNE | t-distributed Stochastic Neighbour Embedding |
| TMA | Tissue microarray |
| UMAP | Uniform Manifold Approximation & Projection |