| Acronym | Meaning |
| GBR | Global Business Research |
| IBI | Institute For Biotechnology Information |
| SIAM | Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics |
| NBAC | Natl. Bioethics Advisory Commission |
| CHI | Cambridge Healthtech Inst. |
| AACC | American Association For Clinical Chemistry |
| SIM | Society For Industrial Microbiology |
| GDB/OMIM | Genome Database/Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |
| AAI | American Association Of Immunologists |