| Acronym | Meaning |
| EMBL | European Mol. Biol. Lab. |
| ASLME | American Society Of Law |
| NCSA | National Center For Supercomputing Applications |
| AAAI | American Association ForArtificial Intelligence |
| INRIA | French Natl. Inst. For Research In Computer Science And Control |
| CATCMB | Center For Advanced Training In Cell And Molecular Biology |
| UW | University Of Washington |
| PIR | Protein Info. Resource |
| IG | IntelliGenetics |
| EUCIB | European Collaborative Interspecific Backcross |