HSP

HSP can mean several things:

• Heat shock proteins - a group of very conserved proteins which are upregulated during stress responses
• Hereditary spastic paraplegia - a group of inherited disorders that are characterized by progressive weakness and stiffness of the legs
• Henoch-Schönlein purpura - a vasculitic disease mainly affecting children
• Hidden subgroup problem - a research subject in mathematics
• High Speed Photometer - a scientific instrument formerly installed on the Hubble Space Telescope
• High Stakes Poker - a televised no limit Texas hold'em cash game broadcast on Game Show Network
• Highly sensitive person - people who are more sensitive than the average human being
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania - historical society founded in 1824 in Philadelphia
• Holy Spirit Preparatory School - a small Roman Catholic school in Atlanta, Georgia
• Host Signal Processing - the use of a general purpose host hardware for performing various digital signal processing functions, especially modem modulation and demodulation
• Hosting Service Provider - a company that provides web site hosting infrastructure and services
• High-scoring Segment Pair - a concept used in heuristic sequence alignment programs such as BLAST, two sequences fragments that have a locally maximum alignment such that it meets or surpasses the alignment threshold
• Harvard Satyrical Press - a Harvard University graduate student humor publication
• Harvard Sussex Program - inter university collaboration on chemical and biological weapons armament and disarmament
• Heuristic Search Planner
• HSP Software
• Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia - a group of clinically and genetically diverse disorders that share a primary feature, which is the causation of progressive and generally severe lower extremity weakness and spasticity.