| Acronym | Meaning |
| CSHL | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| FVEA | Fundacion Valenciana De Estudios Avanzados |
| RECOMB | Conference On Computational Molecular Biology |
| ESHG | European Society Of Human Genetics |
| ARP | American Registry Of Pathology |
| PIR | Protein Info. Resource |
| ISTR | Institute For Science Training And Research |
| PSC | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology |
| DIMACS | Center For Discrete Math. & Theoretical Comp. Sci. |