| C |
cytosine |
| CAD |
coronary artery disease |
| CADD |
computer aided drug design |
| computer assisted drug design |
| CAI |
codon adaptation index |
| CAMM |
computer assisted molecular modeling |
| cAMP |
cyclic 3',5' AMP |
| CaMV |
cauliflower mosaic virus |
| CAP |
catabolite activator protein |
| CAPS |
cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence |
| CAPSS |
clone-array pooled shotgun sequencing |
| CAT |
Committee for Advanced Therapies |
| CBD |
Convention on Biological Diversity |
| Cbfa |
core binding factor |
| CBI |
codon bias index |
| ccc DNA |
covalently-closed circle DNA |
| CCD |
charge coupled device |
| CCPCR |
capillary convective PCR |
| CD |
circular dichroism |
| cDNA |
complementary DNA |
| CDP |
cytidine diphosphate |
| CDR |
complementarity-determing region |
| CDK |
cyclin dependent kinase |
| CE |
capillary electrophoresis |
| CEC |
chicken embryonic cell |
| CF |
cystic fibrose |
| ChE |
cholinesterase |
| ChIP |
chromatin immunoprecipitation |
| CHMP |
Committee for Human Medicinal Products |
| CHO |
chinese hamster ovary |
| CLIA |
chemiluminescent immunoassay |
| cM |
centiMorgan |
| CMD |
cancer molecular diagnostics |
| CML |
chemical markup language |
| CMO |
contract manufacturing organization |
| CMP |
cytidine monophosphate |
| CMV |
cytomegalovirus |
| CNR |
cell nuclear replacement (dict:) |
| CNV |
copy number variation |
| CoA |
coenzyme A |
| CoDA |
context-depended assembly |
| COMET |
computerized molecular evaluation of toxicity |
| COPD |
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
| CoQ |
coenzyme Q (ubiquinone) |
| COX |
cyclooxygenase |
| cpDNA |
chloroplast DNA |
| CPG |
controlled porosity glass |
| CRAMS |
contract research and manufacturing services |
| CRC |
custom research company |
| CRO |
clinical research organization |
| contract research organization |
| CRP |
catabolite regulator protein |
| CSF |
colony stimulating factor |
| CSP |
chiral stationary phase |
| CT |
chromatin transfer |
| CTC |
circulating tumor cell |
| CTL |
cytotoxic T lymphocyte |
| CTP |
cytidine triphosphate |