| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASIS | American Society For Information Science |
| SBH | Sequencing By Hybridization |
| OSU | Oregon State University |
| HGM | Human Genome Meeting |
| ABI | Applied Biosystems |
| AACR | American Association For Cancer Research |
| UCLA | University Of California |
| MIMBD | Meet. On The Interconnection Of Mol. Biol. Databases |
| BSCS | Biological Sciences Curriculum Study |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |