| Acronym | Meaning |
| SIB | Society For Industrial Biology |
| GRC | Gordon Res. Conf. |
| AHA | American Heart Association |
| EMG | Encyclopedia Of The Mouse Genome |
| UCB | University Of California |
| EUCIB | European Collaborative Interspecific Backcross |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| GBR | Global Business Research |
| HMDP | Homology Database |
| GRAIL | Gene Recognition And Analysis Internet Link |