Standards in ISB articles
| Recommended style | not: | Explanation |
| aa | AA, a.a. | amino acid(s) (in analogy to bp, base pair) |
| bp | BP, b.p. | base pair(s) |
| BLAST | Blast | from the original publication |
| ClustalW | CLUSTALW, CLUSTAL-W, CLUSTAL W, Clustalw | from the original publication |
| Email, e-mail | ||
| E-value | E-value, E value, e-value | as in NAR, Bioinf. (mostly), Lesk |
| EMBL | Embl, embl | self-notation |
| Ensembl | ENSEMBL | self-notation |
| Fax | FAX, fax, fax. | address in header |
| Fig. | Figure, figure | in the text body |
| Figure | Fig. | beginning of the figure legend |
| (figures/subfigures):
Fig. 1a |
Fig. 1A, Fig. 1(a) | small lettering; in the figure legend: Figure 1: |
| GenBank | GENBANK, Genbank | self-notation |
| kb | kB, KB, Kb | kilobases (103 bp) |
| kB | KB, Kb, kb | kilobit (103 bit) |
| KEGG | Kegg | style of provider |
| Mb | MB | megabases (106 bp) |
| MB | MB | megabit (106 bit) |
| ml | mL | mililiter |
| nt | Nt | nucleotide(s) |
| (numbers:) 849,123,987
OR: 1234 |
849 123 987 | use the comma separator consistently throughout the ms for figures with >4 digits |
| P-value | P-value, P value, p-value, p-value | acc. to NAR, Lesk |
| Pfam | PFAM, pfam | style of provider |
| Phone | Tel., tel. | address in header |
| Swiss-Prot | SWISS-PROT, SwissProt | style of provider (EBI, SIB) |
| Tab. | Table, table | in the text body |
| Table | Tab. | in Table header |
| Z-score | Z-score, Z score, z-score, z-score, ... |