| Acronym | Meaning |
| AHA | American Heart Association |
| GMD | Genomic Map Design |
| SERGG | Southeast Regional Genetics Group |
| RECOMB | Conference On Computational Molecular Biology |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| ACE | Angiotensin-converting Enzyme |
| SIB | Society For Industrial Biology |
| IU | Indiana University |
| QDFM | Quantitative DNA Fiber Mapping |
| ACS | American Chemical Society |