| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDC | Centers For Disease Control |
| ACMG | American College Of Medical Genet. |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| ADA | Americans With Disabilities Act |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| ORDA | NIH Office Of Recombinant DNA Activities |
| PIR | Protein Info. Resource |
| NIH | National Institutes Of Health |
| NABT | Natl. Assoc. Of Biology Teachers |