| Acronym | Meaning |
| ERI | Eleanor Roosevelt Institute |
| ASPET | American Society For Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics |
| HLA | Human Leukocyte Antigen |
| BDG | Batten's Disease Gene |
| SIVB | Society For In Vitro Biology |
| LTI | Life Technologies |
| CCD | Charged Coupled Device |
| STRP | Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism |
| AHA | American Heart Association |
| RECOMB | Conference On Computational Molecular Biology |