| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSU | Oregon State University |
| GSDB | Genome Sequence Data Base |
| BTCI | BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute |
| SCE | School Of Continuing Education |
| IMGS | Intl. Mammalian Genome Society |
| EMBL | European Mol. Biol. Lab. |
| RECOMB | Conference On Computational Molecular Biology |
| UNC | University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill |
| GDB | Genome Database |
| MMRF | Marshfield Medical Research Foundation |