| Acronym | Meaning |
| ERDA | Energy Research And Development Administration |
| ERI | Eleanor Roosevelt Institute |
| ES | Embryonic Stem |
| ESF | European Science Foundation |
| ESHG | European Society Of Human Genetics |
| ESI | Electrospray Ionization |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| EUCIB | European Collaborative Interspecific Backcross |
| EURESCO | European Research Conferences |
| FAP | Familial Adenomatous Polyposis |
| FASEB | Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology |
| FCM | Flow Cytometry |
| FEBS | Fed. Of Eur. Biochem. Soc. |
| FISH | Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization |
| FMF | Familial Mediterranean Fever |
| FRAXA | Fragile X Locus |
| FSHD | Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy |
| FTICR | Fourier Transform Ioncyclotron Resonance |
| FVEA | Fundacion Valenciana De Estudios Avanzados |
| GAS | Genome Automation System |
| GBASE | Genome Database Of The Mouse |
| GBR | Global Business Research |
| GDB | Genome Database |
| GDB/OMIM | Genome Database/Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man |
| GESTEC | Genome Science And Technology Center |
| GIST | Genome Informatics System Of Transputers |
| GLARGG | Great Lakes Regional Genetics Group |
| GMCRF | General Motors Cancer Res. Foundation |
| GMD | Genomic Map Design |
| GPI | Genetics And Public Issues Program |
| GRAIL | Gene Recognition And Analysis Internet Link |
| GRC | Gordon Res. Conf. |
| GSA | Genetics Societies Of America |
| GSDB | Genome Sequence Data Base |
| HAEC | Human Artificial Episomal Chromosome |
| HELSRD | Health Effects And Life Science Research Division |
| HERAC | Health And Environmental Research Advisory Committee |
| HGCC | Human Genome Coordinating Committee |
| HGM | Human Genome Meeting |
| HGMIS | Human Genome Management Information System |
| HGN | Human Genome News |
| HGP | Human Genome Project |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| HICSS | Hawaii Intl. Conf. On Systems Sci. |
| HLA | Human Leukocyte Antigen |
| HMDP | Homology Database |
| HNPCC | Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer |
| HSA | Human Serum Albumin |
| HUGO | Human Genome Organisation |
| IARC | International Agency For Research On Cancer |