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B2B - Business to Business

On the Internet, B2B (business-to-business), also known as e-biz, is the exchange of products, services, or information between businesses rather than between businesses and consumers. Although early interest centered on the growth of retailing on the Internet (sometimes called e-tailing), forecasts are that B2B revenue will far exceed business-to-consumers (B2C) revenue in the near future.

BBSRC - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

BBSRC is one of the seven UK government Research Councils. The BBSRC's purpose, as embodied in its Mission Statement is to sustain a broad base of interdisciplinary research and training to help industry, commerce and Government create wealth and improve the quality of life. The Council fosters multi-disciplinary approaches; there are opportunities for contributions from chemists, physicists, agricultural scientists and engineers, as well as biologists.

Bean

In its JavaBeans application program interface for writing a component, Sun Microsystems calls a component a "Bean" (thus continuing their coffee analogy). A Bean is simply the Sun Microsystems variation on the idea of a component.

BER - Basic Encoding Rules, in ASN.1 (X.500, LDAP)

Basic Encoding Rules (BER) is the set of rules for encoding ASN.1 defined data into a particular representation for transmitting to another system.

BioML - Biopolymer Markup Language

BIOML was designed by the BIOML core team at Proteometrics, LLC and Proteometrics Canada Ltd. It is to be used "for the annotation of biopolymer sequence information. BIOML allows the full specification of all experimental information known about molecular entities composed of biopolymers, for example, proteins and genes."

BLAST - Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

A new approach to rapid sequence comparison, basic local alignment search tool (BLAST), directly approximates alignments that optimize a measure of local similarity, the maximal segment pair (MSP) score. Recent mathematical results on the stochastic properties of MSP scores allow an analysis of the performance of this method as well as the statistical significance of alignments it generates.

BOF - Birds of a feather

BOF sessions provide a forum for attendees to continue the technical conversation of the conference, meet with others that have common geographical or industry interests and exchange ideas on a broad range of topics.

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Acknowledgments:

Some original material is from the GridPP Web site maintained by Joe Foster, University of Manchester. Additions by Rob Allan, Dharmesh Chohan, Adrian Fish and Audrienne Cutajar Bezzina.

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