| Acronym | Meaning |
| NHGRI | Natl. Human Genome Res. Inst. |
| CIRB | Colorado Institute For Research In Biotechnology |
| ISAG | Intl. Society For Animal Genetics |
| HUGO | Human Genome Organisation |
| SCAN | Sequence Comparison ANalysis Program |
| ACMG | American College Of Medical Genet. |
| GDB | Genome Database |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |
| PSC | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center |
| HICSS | Hawaii Intl. Conf. On Systems Sci. |