AD Adenocarcinoma
CAMs Cell Adhesion Molecules
cDNA Complimentary Deoxynucleic Acid
circRNA Circular RNA
DEA Differential Expression Analysis
DEGs Differentially expressed genes
DNA Deoxynucleic Acid
ECM Extracellular Matrix
GUI Graphical User Interface
HGUC High-grade Urothelial Carcinoma
lncRNA Long non-coding RNA
MES Mesenchymal-like
MIBC Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
miRNA microRNA
mTOR Mammalian Target of Rapamycin
NCDB National Cancer Database
NCI National Cancer Institute
NEBC Neuroendocrine Carcinoma
NGS Next-generation Sequencing
NK Natural Killer
NMIBC Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
Nt Nucleotide
PacBio Pacific Biosciences
PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction
QC Quality Control
RC Radical Cystectomy
RIN RNA Integrity Number
RNA Ribonucleic Acid
RNA-Seq RNA Sequencing
ROS Reactive Oxygen Species
RPKM Reads Per Kilobase of Exon Model Per Million Reads
rRNA Ribosomal RNA
RT Reverse Transcriptase
SCC Squamous Cell Carcinoma
scRNA-Seq Single Cell RNA Sequencing
SMRT Single-Molecule Real-Time
SmSCC Small Cell Carcinoma
SNVs Single Nucleotide Variants
SOLiD Sequencing by Oligonucleotide Ligation and Detection
STAR Spliced Transcript Alignment to a Reference
UA Umar Ahmad
UC Urothelial Carcinoma
UCC Urothelial Cell Carcinoma
UCSC University of California Senta Crus
UCV Urothelial Carcinoma with Variant