| HATs | Histone Acetyltransferases |
| HDACs | Histone Deacetylases |
| HMT | Histone Methyltransferases |
| HDMs | Histone Demethylases |
| ALL | Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
| AML | Acute Myelogenous Leukemia |
| CLL | Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia |
| CML | Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia |
| ENCODE | The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements |
| GEO | Gene Expression Omnibus |
| EMBL-EBI | European Bioinformatics Institute |
| ChIP-Seq | Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) followed by high-throughput DNA sequencing |
| RNA-seq | RNA sequencing |
| RPKM | Reads Per Kilobase of transcript per Million reads mapped |
| Refseq | The Reference Sequence |
| STC | summary tag counts |