| Acronym | Meaning |
| EL.B.A. | ELectronics And Biotechnology Advanced |
| ASHG | American Society For Human Genetics |
| EMG | Encyclopedia Of The Mouse Genome |
| CHOP | Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia |
| SSLP | Single-sequence Length Polymorphism |
| MEMS | Microelectromechanical Systems |
| SIAM | Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics |
| NLM | National Library Of Medicine |
| STRP | Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism |
| TIGR/NIST | The Inst. For Genomic Res./Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technol. |