| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICHG | International Congress Of Human Genetics |
| ECB | European Congress On Biotechnology |
| IMACS | International Association For Mathematics And Computers In Simulation |
| BS/SCF | Biological Sequence/Structure Computational Facility |
| NEH | National Endowment For The Humanities |
| STRP | Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism |
| CF | Cystic Fibrosis |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| QDFM | Quantitative DNA Fiber Mapping |
| UCB | University Of California |