| Acronym | Meaning |
| OBER | Office Of Biological And Environmental Research |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| SASE | Sample Sequencing |
| OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man |
| AMIA | American Medical Informatics Association |
| FCM | Flow Cytometry |
| PACHG | Program Advisory Committee On The Human Genome |
| NBAC | Natl. Bioethics Advisory Commission |
| MGC | Mouse Genome Conference |
| NASA | Natl. Aeronautics And Space Administration |