| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASPET | American Society For Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics |
| AACC | American Association For Clinical Chemistry |
| FASEB | Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology |
| MGI | Microbial Genome Initiative |
| RAPD | Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA |
| NIGMS | Natl. Institute Of General Medical Sciences |
| IMACS | International Association For Mathematics And Computers In Simulation |
| GSDB | Genome Sequence Data Base |
| PFGE | Pulsed-field Gel Electrophresis |
| IBI | Institute For Biotechnology Information |