| Acronym | Meaning |
| AES | American Electrophoresis Society |
| SIM | Society For Industrial Microbiology |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| RAPD | Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA |
| CONTIG | Consortium Of Teachers In Genetics |
| ISMB | Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology |
| NIH | National Institutes Of Health |
| ICHG | International Congress Of Human Genetics |
| QDFM | Quantitative DNA Fiber Mapping |
| DDBJ | DNA Data Bank Of Japan |