| Acronym | Meaning |
| ISMB | Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology |
| ESI | Electrospray Ionization |
| BAC | Bacterial Artificial Chromosome |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| AAAI | American Association ForArtificial Intelligence |
| LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| EDS | Electronic Data Submission |
| STRP | Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism |
| BS/SCF | Biological Sequence/Structure Computational Facility |
| NSF | Natl. Sci. Foundation |