| Acronym | Meaning |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| SCAN | Sequence Comparison ANalysis Program |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational |
| ASB | American Society For Biotechnology |
| EEOC | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| SHOM | Sequencing By Hybridization On Matrices |
| LTI | Life Technologies |
| NIH | National Institutes Of Health |
| SBIR | Small Business Innovation Research |
| HAEC | Human Artificial Episomal Chromosome |