| Acronym | Meaning |
| SCI | Society Of Chemical Industry |
| CCM | Chromosome Coordinating Meeting |
| IJCAI | International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence |
| NASA | Natl. Aeronautics And Space Administration |
| NSTA | National Science Teachers Association |
| LTI | Life Technologies |
| ANGIS | Australian National Genomic Info. Service |
| CIRB | Colorado Institute For Research In Biotechnology |
| DIMACS | Center For Discrete Math. & Theoretical Comp. Sci. |
| STRP | Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism |