| Acronym | Meaning |
| CHOP | Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia |
| CIRB | Colorado Institute For Research In Biotechnology |
| GRC | Gordon Res. Conf. |
| ERDA | Energy Research And Development Administration |
| HELSRD | Health Effects And Life Science Research Division |
| EMBL | European Mol. Biol. Lab. |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |
| EURESCO | European Research Conferences |
| HGCC | Human Genome Coordinating Committee |
| TIGR/NIST | The Inst. For Genomic Res./Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technol. |