| Acronym | Meaning |
| TIGR/NIST | The Inst. For Genomic Res./Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technol. |
| SIAM | Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics |
| DM | Myotonic Dystrophy |
| HAEC | Human Artificial Episomal Chromosome |
| XIST | Candidate Gene For X-inactivation Center |
| MMRF | Marshfield Medical Research Foundation |
| ACS | American Chemical Society |
| WHS | Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome |
| DIMACS | Center For Discrete Math. & Theoretical Comp. Sci. |
| ERDA | Energy Research And Development Administration |