| Acronym | Meaning |
| SSR | Simple Sequence Repeat |
| UMDS | United Medical & Dental Schools (Univ. Of London) |
| UCLA | University Of California |
| IBC | International Business Communications |
| IJCAI | International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| NFID | National Foundation For Infectious Diseases |
| MDA | Muscular Dystrophy Assoc. |
| AGT | Association Of Genetic Technologists |
| ASM | American Society For Microbiology |