| Acronym | Meaning |
| NAS | Natl. Academy Of Sciences |
| EURESCO | European Research Conferences |
| GIST | Genome Informatics System Of Transputers |
| CIOMS | Council For International Organizations Of Medical Sciences |
| NIH | National Institutes Of Health |
| SIB | Society For Industrial Biology |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| AACR | American Association For Cancer Research |
| MIMBD | Meet. On The Interconnection Of Mol. Biol. Databases |
| DDBJ | DNA Data Bank Of Japan |