| Acronym | Meaning |
| CONTIG | Consortium Of Teachers In Genetics |
| PG | Plant Genome |
| UW | University Of Washington |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| ANGIS | Australian National Genomic Info. Service |
| BS/SCF | Biological Sequence/Structure Computational Facility |
| NHGRI | Natl. Human Genome Res. Inst. |
| RFLP | Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism |
| AMIA | American Medical Informatics Association |
| CHOP | Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia |