| Acronym | Meaning |
| OTA | Office Of Technology Assessment |
| MGD | Mouse Genome Database |
| IUBMB | Intl. Union Of Biochemistry And Molecular Biology |
| IMGS | Intl. Mammalian Genome Society |
| YAC | Yeast Artificial Chromosome |
| UNC | University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill |
| ESF | European Science Foundation |
| FASEB | Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology |
| GESTEC | Genome Science And Technology Center |
| OAINN | Ohio Aerospace Institute Neural Networks |