| Acronym | Meaning |
| CSHL | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| MB | Megabase |
| CIOMS | Council For International Organizations Of Medical Sciences |
| SIVB | Society For In Vitro Biology |
| IEEE | Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers |
| IMACS | International Association For Mathematics And Computers In Simulation |
| PIR | Protein Info. Resource |
| MIMBD | Meet. On The Interconnection Of Mol. Biol. Databases |
| ISQL | Interactive Standard Query Language |
| NIGMS | National Institute Of General Medical Sciences |