| Acronym | Meaning |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| ORAU | Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
| FEBS | Fed. Of Eur. Biochem. Soc. |
| RARA | Retinoic Acid Receptor |
| SSLP | Single-sequence Length Polymorphism |
| EMBL | European Mol. Biol. Lab. |
| GPI | Genetics And Public Issues Program |
| RECOMB | Conference On Computational Molecular Biology |
| HGP | Human Genome Project |
| ABI | Applied Biosystems |