| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDC | Centers For Disease Control |
| SIM | Society For Industrial Microbiology |
| SCAN | Sequence Comparison ANalysis Program |
| EMBL | European Mol. Biol. Lab. |
| MGI | Microbial Genome Initiative |
| BCM | Baylor College Of Medicine |
| CONTIG | Consortium Of Teachers In Genetics |
| SBH | Sequencing By Hybridization |
| BER | Biological And Environmental Research |
| WSES | World Scientific And Engineering Society |