| Acronym | Meaning |
| HICSS | Hawaii Intl. Conf. On Systems Sci. |
| SBH | Sequencing By Hybridization |
| CHOP | Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia |
| HSA | Human Serum Albumin |
| ASIP | American Society For Investigative Pathologists |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| ASHG | American Society For Human Genetics |
| HGP | Human Genome Project |
| NRSA | National Research Service Award |
| CIRB | Colorado Institute For Research In Biotechnology |