| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASPET | American Society For Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics |
| NIST | Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technology |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ESI | Electrospray Ionization |
| SIM | Society For Industrial Microbiology |
| AVS | American Vacuum Society |
| TIGR/NIST | The Inst. For Genomic Res./Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technol. |
| AIBS | Am. Inst. Of Biol. Soc. |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| CRADA | Cooperative Research And Development Agreement |