| Acronym | Meaning |
| STM | Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
| ECB | European Congress On Biotechnology |
| ASIP | American Society For Investigative Pathologists |
| ORISE | Oak Ridge Inst. For Science And Education |
| FASEB | Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology |
| RAPD | Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA |
| IMACS | International Association For Mathematics And Computers In Simulation |
| CCM | Chromosome Coordinating Meeting |
| EDS | Electronic Data Submission |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |