| Acronym | Meaning |
| MOU | Memorandum Of Understanding |
| MBC | Massachusetts Biotechnology Council |
| ACMG | American College Of Medical Genet. |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ISAG | Intl. Society For Animal Genetics |
| PSC | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center |
| ABI | Applied Biosystems |
| CCD | Charged Coupled Device |
| CHOP | Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia |
| PAC | P1 Artificial Chromosome |