This page contains a set of words and abbreviations commonly used in the field (of spatial transcriptomics specifically).
Jargon
Organisms
- Drosophila Melanogaster = Fruit Fly
- Mus Musculus = House Mouse
Abbreviations
Prefix
- sm- = Single Molecule
- PA- = Photoactivatable
Postfix
- -GFP = Green Fluorescent Protein
- -seq = Sequencing
Full Abbreviations
- FACS = Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting
-ISH-
- ISH = In Situ Hybridization
- WM ISH = Whole Mount ISH
- FISH = Fluorescent ISH
- MERFISH = Multiplexed Error-Robust ISH
- ISS = In Situ Sequencing
- LCM = Laser Capture Microdissection
- NGS = Next Generation Sequencing
- ROI = Region Of Interest
- SPACECAT = Spatially Photoactivatable Color Encoded Cellular Address Tags