| Acronym | Meaning |
| MHC | Major Histocompatibility Complex |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |
| CCM | Chromosome Coordinating Meeting |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational |
| FTICR | Fourier Transform Ioncyclotron Resonance |
| ABI | Applied Biosystems |
| IJCAI | International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence |
| HGN | Human Genome News |
| GSDB | Genome Sequence Data Base |
| SHOM | Sequencing By Hybridization On Matrices |