| Acronym | Meaning |
| MDA | Muscular Dystrophy Assoc. |
| CASSS | California Separation Science Society |
| GBR | Global Business Research |
| NEH | National Endowment For The Humanities |
| MMRF | Marshfield Medical Research Foundation |
| AAAS | American Association For The Advancement Of Science |
| ABIC | Agricultural Biotechnology Intl. Conf. |
| HICSS | Hawaii Intl. Conf. On Systems Sci. |
| GAS | Genome Automation System |
| GSDB | Genome Sequence Data Base |