| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFMR | American Federation Of Medical Research |
| OAINN | Ohio Aerospace Institute Neural Networks |
| IEEE | Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers |
| ANGIS | Australian National Genomic Info. Service |
| IU | Indiana University |
| INRIA | French Natl. Inst. For Research In Computer Science And Control |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| FCM | Flow Cytometry |
| DOE | Department Of Energy |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |