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The OSTHUS Glossary

 

 

The OSTHUS Glossary provides definitions for common terms, concepts, and abbreviations at the interface between science and information technology (IT).

Disclaimer: This glossary is an open access document created by OSTHUS to provide general insights. For specific advice on your enterprise, please contact OSTHUS. In this document, any descriptive reference to trademarks owned by others do not assert the ownership of such trademarks by OSTHUS.

All A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

ADME
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API)
Advanced Analytics
Allotrope
Analytical Chemistry
Antibody
Application Programming Interface (API)
Application-centric
Architectural Blueprint
Architectural Guiding Principles
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Assertion Box
Audit Trail

B

Batch
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biologics
Business Analysis

C

Capability Map
Cell and Gene Therapy
Cheminformatics
Chromatography Data System (CDS)
Clinical Study
Clinical Trials
Cloud
Cloud Types
Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)
Computational Science
Conceptual Data Model
Critical Data Element (CDE)

D

Data
Data Access
Data Architecture
Data Archiving
Data Asset
Data Catalog
Data Connector
Data Consumer
Data Extraction
Data Federation
Data Flow
Data Governance
Data Governance Framework
Data Hub
Data Ingestion
Data Integration
Data Integration Layer
Data Lake
Data Lifecycle
Data Lineage
Data Management
Data Management Maturity Model (DMMM)
Data Mart
Data Mining
Data Model
Data Ownership
Data Policy
Data Preservation
Data Privacy
Data Producer
Data Provenance
Data Quality
Data Science
Data Security
Data Silo
Data Standards
Data Stewardship
Data Strategy
Data Transformation
Data Type
Data Vault
Data Virtualization
Data Warehouse
Database (DB)
Data-centric
Data-centric Manifesto
Data-flow Diagram
Deep Learning
Dictionary
Digital Asset
Digital Integration Hub
Digital Object
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Digital Transformation
Digital Twin
Digitalization
Digitization
Discovery Research
DNA
Domain
Domain Architecture
Drug 
Drug Development
Drug Discovery
Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK)
Drug Product
Drug Substance

E

Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)
Elementary Data Type
Event-driven Process Chain (EPC)
Excipients
Experiment
Exposure
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)

F

FAIR
Federated Data
Flat File System
Formulation

G

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Genomic Data
GitHub
GitLab
Glossary
Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
Grammar
Graph Databases

H

High-content Screening (HCS)
High-throughput Screening (HTS)
Hybrid Cloud

I

Information Technology (IT)
In-silico Experiments
Internet of Things (IoT)
Interoperability
IT Architecture
IT Blueprint
IT Strategy

J

JSON

K

Knowledge
Knowledge Graphs

L

Laboratory
Laboratory Execution System (LES)
Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
Life Sciences
Laboratory Informatics

M

Machine Learning
Master Data
Master Data Management
Metadata
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

N

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Neural Network
NoSQL Database

O

On-premise
Ontology

P

Persistent Identifier
Pharmacokinetics (PK)
Physical Sciences
Pilot Study
Private Cloud
Process Automation
Project
Proof of Concept (PoC)
Protein
Public Cloud

Q

R

Reference Architecture
Reference Data
Reference Data Management (RDM)
Registration
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Representational State Transfer (REST) API
Requirement
Requirement Specification
Research and Development
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RACI Matrix)
RNA

S

Sample
Science
Scientific Data Management System (SDMS)
Scientific Data Types
Screening
Scrum
Semantic Web
Semantics
Semi-structured Data
Small Molecule
SOAP
Software as a Service (SaaS)
SPARQL
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Subject Matter Expert (SME)

T

Tenant Cloud
Terminology Box
Test (Laboratory)
Transaction
Triple Store

U

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Unstructured Data
Use Case
User Story

V

Virtualization
Vocabulary

W

Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Web Services

X

Y

Z

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