| Acronym | Meaning |
| SASE | Sample Sequencing |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |
| NIH | National Institutes Of Health |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| SULS | Suffolk Univ. Law School |
| MNBWS | Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium |
| AES | American Electrophoresis Society |
| BAC | Bacterial Artificial Chromosome |