| Acronym | Meaning |
| ELSI | Ethical |
| ASIP | American Society For Investigative Pathologists |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| AACR | American Association For Cancer Research |
| SIAM | Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics |
| UW | University Of Washington |
| GESTEC | Genome Science And Technology Center |
| CCM | Chromosome Coordinating Meeting |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| GDB | Genome Database |