| Acronym | Meaning |
| CHOP | Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia |
| WCCS | Workshop On Complete CDNA Sequencing |
| CCD | Charged Coupled Device |
| NSTA | National Science Teachers Association |
| JGI | Joint Genome Institute |
| RFLP | Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism |
| ISMB | Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology |
| OSU | Oregon State University |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |
| SSR | Simple Sequence Repeat |