| Acronym | Meaning |
| AVS | American Vacuum Society |
| OHER | Office Of Health And Environmental Research |
| INRIA | French Natl. Inst. For Research In Computer Science And Control |
| HAEC | Human Artificial Episomal Chromosome |
| ELSI | Ethical |
| MOU | Memorandum Of Understanding |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| MGC | Mouse Genome Conference |
| NRSA | National Research Service Award |
| STM | Scanning Tunneling Microscope |