| Acronym | Meaning |
| CORN | Council Of Regional Networks For Genetic Services |
| TIGR/NIST | The Inst. For Genomic Res./Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technol. |
| ICPEMC | International Commission On Protection Against Environmental Mutagens And Carcinogens |
| GPI | Genetics And Public Issues Program |
| SSLP | Single-sequence Length Polymorphism |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| WCCS | Workshop On Complete CDNA Sequencing |
| ICRF | Imperial Cancer Research Fund |
| IMACS | International Association For Mathematics And Computers In Simulation |
| NCSA | National Center For Supercomputing Applications |