| Acronym | Meaning |
| CONTIG | Consortium Of Teachers In Genetics |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| AAP | Association Of American Physicians |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| IVD | In Vitro Diagnostic |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| SASE | Sample Sequencing |
| IMACS | International Association For Mathematics And Computers In Simulation |
| OSU | Oregon State University |
| CIMB | Center For International Meeting On Biology |