| Acronym | Meaning |
 | LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
 | SIMS | Societal Institute Of The Mathematical Sciences |
 | ORAU | Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
 | IOM | Institute Of Medicine |
 | NIST | Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technology |
 | ORF | Open Reading Frame |
 | UNC | University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill |
 | SHOM | Sequencing By Hybridization On Matrices |
 | OTA | Office Of Technology Assessment |
 | BER | Biological And Environmental Research |