| Acronym | Meaning |
| AAAS | American Association For The Advancement Of Science |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| CHOP | Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia |
| ESHG | European Society Of Human Genetics |
| HERAC | Health And Environmental Research Advisory Committee |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| AAAI | American Association ForArtificial Intelligence |
| HGCC | Human Genome Coordinating Committee |
| MIMBD | Meet. On The Interconnection Of Mol. Biol. Databases |
| SCI | Society Of Chemical Industry |