| Acronym | Meaning |
| AAP | Association Of American Physicians |
| STRP | Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism |
| UICM | Univ. Of Illinois College Of Medicine |
| WLMG | Wellcome Laboratory For Molecular Genetics |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| MCD | Mouse Cytogenetic Database |
| DOE | Department Of Energy |
| INRIA | French Natl. Inst. For Research In Computer Science And Control |
| CHI | Cambridge Healthtech Inst. |
| HMDP | Homology Database |