title: STAP
text: # STAP
  
  STAP, or stap, may refer to:
  
  ## Name
  
  * List of people with the surname Stap
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * Space-time adaptive processing, a signal processing technique
  * Simple task-actor protocol, UI serialization spec for enabling symmetric sw access for AI and human users
  * STAP1, a signal-transducing adaptor protein encoded by the STAP1 gene
  * STAP2, a signal-transducing adaptor protein encoded by the STAP2 gene
  * Stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency, a proposed method of generating pluripotent stem cells
  * SystemTap (stap), a Linux debugging utility
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, an arm of the Global Environment Facility and part of the UN Family of organizations
  * Single Trooper Aerial Platform, a fictional Star Wars vehicle
  * São Tomé and Príncipe, country's acronym name is STAP
  