| Acronym | Meaning |
| EMBO | European Molecular Biology Organisation |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| ERI | Eleanor Roosevelt Institute |
| GDB/OMIM | Genome Database/Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man |
| TIGR/NIST | The Inst. For Genomic Res./Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technol. |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| FTICR | Fourier Transform Ioncyclotron Resonance |
| CM | Centimorgan |
| ISQL | Interactive Standard Query Language |
| GESTEC | Genome Science And Technology Center |