| Acronym | Meaning |
| MBL | Marine Biological Laboratory |
| MGI | Microbial Genome Initiative |
| BAC | Bacterial Artificial Chromosome |
| IGES | International Genetics Epidemiology Societies |
| FISH | Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization |
| ISMB | Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology |
| ERI | Eleanor Roosevelt Institute |
| HICSS | Hawaii Intl. Conf. On Systems Sci. |
| CSHL | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| NIH | National Institutes Of Health |