| Acronym | Meaning |
| ESF | European Science Foundation |
| HGCC | Human Genome Coordinating Committee |
| SCI | Society Of Chemical Industry |
| NSF | Natl. Sci. Foundation |
| USDA | U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture |
| RECOMB | Conference On Computational Molecular Biology |
| ASM | American Society For Microbiology |
| DIMACS | Center For Discrete Math. & Theoretical Comp. Sci. |
| WHS | Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome |
| GRAIL | Gene Recognition And Analysis Internet Link |