| Acronym | Meaning |
| PG | Plant Genome |
| PIR | Protein Info. Resource |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| PRIM&R | Public Responsibility In Medicine & Research |
| PSC | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center |
| QDFM | Quantitative DNA Fiber Mapping |
| RAPD | Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA |
| RARA | Retinoic Acid Receptor |
| RECOMB | Conference On Computational Molecular Biology |
| RFLP | Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism |
| RH | Radiation Hybrid |
| RLGS | Restriction Landmark Genomic Scanning |
| SASE | Sample Sequencing |
| SBH | Sequencing By Hybridization |
| SBIR | Small Business Innovation Research |
| SCAN | Sequence Comparison ANalysis Program |
| SCE | School Of Continuing Education |
| SCI | Society Of Chemical Industry |
| SCW | Single-chromosome Workshop |
| SDC | San Diego Conference |
| SERGG | Southeast Regional Genetics Group |
| SHOM | Sequencing By Hybridization On Matrices |
| SIAM | Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics |
| SIB | Society For Industrial Biology |
| SIM | Society For Industrial Microbiology |
| SIMS | Societal Institute Of The Mathematical Sciences |
| SIVB | Society For In Vitro Biology |
| SNL | Sandia National Laboratory |
| SNP | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism |
| SNRNP | Small Nuclear Ribonucleo Protein Particle |
| SQL | Standard Query Language |
| SSLP | Single-sequence Length Polymorphism |
| SSR | Simple Sequence Repeat |
| STM | Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
| STRP | Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |
| SULS | Suffolk Univ. Law School |
| TCR | T-cell Receptor |
| TIGR | The Inst. For Genomic Research |
| TIGR/NIST | The Inst. For Genomic Res./Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technol. |
| UC | University Of California |
| UCB | University Of California |
| UCLA | University Of California |
| UICM | Univ. Of Illinois College Of Medicine |
| UMBC | University Of Maryland |
| UMDS | United Medical & Dental Schools (Univ. Of London) |
| UNC | University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational |
| USDA | U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture |
| UT | University Of Tennessee |