| Acronym | Meaning |
| CEPH | Centre D'Etude Du Polymorphisme Humain |
| NIST | Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technology |
| PACHG | Program Advisory Committee On The Human Genome |
| ORF | Open Reading Frame |
| BER | Biological And Environmental Research |
| GSDB | Genome Sequence Data Base |
| HICSS | Hawaii Intl. Conf. On Systems Sci. |
| AFIP/ARP | Armed Forces Inst. Of Pathol./Am. Registry Of Pathol. |
| WCCS | Workshop On Complete CDNA Sequencing |
| QDFM | Quantitative DNA Fiber Mapping |