| Acronym | Meaning |
| GBR | Global Business Research |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| UT | University Of Tennessee |
| SIAM | Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics |
| PFGE | Pulsed-field Gel Electrophresis |
| IMGS | Intl. Mammalian Genome Society |
| NCSA | National Center For Supercomputing Applications |
| HMDP | Homology Database |
| EORTC | European Organization For Research And Treatment Of Cancer |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |