| Acronym | Meaning |
| YAC | Yeast Artificial Chromosome |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| ASIS | American Society For Information Science |
| SNL | Sandia National Laboratory |
| AFIP/ARP | Armed Forces Inst. Of Pathol./Am. Registry Of Pathol. |
| ESI | Electrospray Ionization |
| CIOMS | Council For International Organizations Of Medical Sciences |
| GSDB | Genome Sequence Data Base |
| NSTA | National Science Teachers Association |
| ACMG | American College Of Medical Genet. |