| Acronym | Meaning |
| FAP | Familial Adenomatous Polyposis |
| SCAN | Sequence Comparison ANalysis Program |
| LTI | Life Technologies |
| IMGS | Intl. Mammalian Genome Society |
| PSC | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| CFF | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
| IBEX | International Biotechnology EXpo |
| UCB | University Of California |
| FTICR | Fourier Transform Ioncyclotron Resonance |