| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASCB | American Society For Cell Biology |
| LTI | Life Technologies |
| RARA | Retinoic Acid Receptor |
| SIAM | Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics |
| CTG | Trinucleotide Repeat |
| AAP | Association Of American Physicians |
| HGM | Human Genome Meeting |
| CONTIG | Consortium Of Teachers In Genetics |
| ICES | International Council Of Electrophoresis Societies |
| FEBS | Fed. Of Eur. Biochem. Soc. |