| Acronym | Meaning |
| BP | Base Pair |
| CDC | Centers For Disease Control |
| MIMBD | Meet. On The Interconnection Of Mol. Biol. Databases |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| OSU | Oregon State University |
| HMDP | Homology Database |
| EL.B.A. | ELectronics And Biotechnology Advanced |
| ICHG | International Congress Of Human Genetics |
| CDNA | Complementary DNA |
| HGMIS | Human Genome Management Information System |