| Acronym | Meaning |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational |
| EMBL | European Mol. Biol. Lab. |
| NCSA | National Center For Supercomputing Applications |
| WLMG | Wellcome Laboratory For Molecular Genetics |
| IMA | Institute For Mathematics And Its Applications |
| PAC | P1 Artificial Chromosome |
| GRAIL | Gene Recognition And Analysis Internet Link |
| CIMB | Center For International Meeting On Biology |
| IMGS | Intl. Mammalian Genome Society |
| IVD | In Vitro Diagnostic |