| Acronym | Meaning |
| SIVB | Society For In Vitro Biology |
| BP | Base Pair |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| HICSS | Hawaii Intl. Conf. On Systems Sci. |
| ASCI | American Society For Clinical Investigation |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| HLA | Human Leukocyte Antigen |
| HGMIS | Human Genome Management Information System |
| NCSU | North Carolina State University |
| ABIC | Agricultural Biotechnology Intl. Conf. |