Appendix B: Key Terms

The following table provides definitions and explanations for terms and acronyms relevant to the content presented within this document.

Term	Definition
ACL	Access Control List
API	Application Programming Interface
BAM	Bidirectional Associative Memory
BCR	Biospecimen Core Resource
CSV	Comma Seperated Values
DCC	Data Coordinating Center
eRA	Electronic Research Administration
GDC	Genomic Data Commons
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IDE	Integrated Development Environment
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation
MAGE-TAB	Microarray Gene Expression - Tabular format
NCI	National Cancer Institute
NIH	National Institutes of Health
Op	Operations
REST	Representational State Transfer
TARGET	Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments
TCGA	The Cancer Genome Atlas
TSV	Tab Seperated Values
UUID	Universally Unique Identifier
URL	Universal Resource Locator
XML	Extensible Markup Language