- AAAI American Association forArtificial
Intelligence
- AAAS American Association for the Advancement of
Science
- AACC American Association for Clinical Chemistry
- AACR American Association for Cancer Research
- AAI American Association of Immunologists
- AAIP American Association of Investigative
Pathologists
- AAP Association of American Physicians
- ABA Australian Biotechnol. Assoc.
- ABI Applied Biosystems, Inc.
- ABIC Agricultural Biotechnology Intl. Conf.
- ABRF Association of Biomolecular Resource
Facilities
- ACE angiotensin-converting enzyme
- ACEDB A C. elegans database
- ACMG American College of Medical Genet.
- ACS American Chemical Society
- ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
- AEC Atomic Energy Commission
- AES American Electrophoresis Society
- AFMR American Federation of Medical Research
- AFIP/ARP Armed Forces Inst. of Pathol./Am.
Registry of Pathol.
- AGSG Alliance of Genetic Support Groups (now
Genetic Alliance)
- AGT Association of Genetic Technologists
- AHA American Heart Association
- AIBS Am. Inst. of Biol. Soc.
- AIDS acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- AMIA American Medical Informatics Association
- ANGIS Australian National Genomic Info. Service
- ANL Argonne National Laboratory
- API application programming interface
- ARP American Registry of Pathology
- ASB American Society for Biotechnology
- ASBMB American Society for Biochemistry &
Molecular Biology
- ASCB American Society for Cell Biology
- ASCI American Society for Clinical Investigation
- ASHG American Society for Human Genetics
- ASIP American Society for Investigative
Pathologists
- ASIS American Society for Information Science
- ASLME American Society of Law, Medicine, and
Ethics
- ASM American Society for Microbiology
- ASPET American Society for Pharmacology and
Experimental Therapeutics
- ATCC American Type Culture Collection
- ATP Advanced Technology Program
- AVS American Vacuum Society
- AWCH Adelaide Women and Children's Hospital
- BAC bacterial artificial chromosome
- BACR British Association for Cancer Research
- BCM Baylor College of Medicine
- BDG Batten's disease gene
- BER Biological and Environmental Research
- BIO Biotechnology Industry Organization
- BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
- bp base pair
- BSCS Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
- BS/SCF Biological Sequence/Structure
Computational Facility
- BTCI BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute
- BTP Biotechnology Training Programs
- CAE capillary array electrophoresis
- CaSSS California Separation Science Society
- CATCMB Center for Advanced Training in Cell and
Molecular Biology
- CATCMB/CUA Center for Advanced Training in
Cell and Molecular Biology/Catholic Univ. of America
- CCD charged coupled device
- CCM Chromosome Coordinating Meeting
- CDC Centers for Disease Control
- cDNA complementary DNA
- CE capillary electrophoresis
- CEPH Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain
- CF Cystic Fibrosis
- CFF Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- CHH cartilage-hair hypoplasia
- CHI Cambridge Healthtech Inst.
- CHOP Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- CIMB Center for International Meeting on Biology
- CIOMS Council for International Organizations of
Medical Sciences
- CIRB Colorado Institute for Research in
Biotechnology
- CLMA Clinical Laboratory Management Association
- cM centimorgan
- CMT Charcot-Marie-Tooth
- CONTIG Consortium of Teachers in Genetics
- CORN Council of Regional Networks for Genetic
Services
- CRADA Cooperative Research and Development
Agreement
- CSHL Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- CTG trinucleotide repeat
- DDBJ DNA Data Bank of Japan
- DHHS Dept. of Health and Human Services
- DIMACS Center for Discrete Math. &
Theoretical Comp. Sci.
- DM myotonic dystrophy
- DMD Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- DNA deoxyribonucleic acid
- DOE Department of Energy
- ECB European Congress on Biotechnology
- EDS electronic data submission
- EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- EL.B.A. ELectronics and Biotechnology Advanced
- ELSI ethical, legal, and social issues
- EMBL European Mol. Biol. Lab.
- EMBO European Molecular Biology Organisation
- EMG Encyclopedia of the Mouse Genome
- EMS Environmental Mutagen Society
- EORTC European Organization for Research and
Treatment of Cancer
- ERDA Energy Research and Development
Administration
- ERI Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
- ES embryonic stem
- ESF European Science Foundation
- ESHG European Society of Human Genetics
- ESI electrospray ionization
- EST expressed sequence tag
- EUCIB European Collaborative Interspecific
Backcross
- EURESCO European Research Conferences
- FAP familial adenomatous polyposis
- FASEB Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology
- FCM flow cytometry
- FEBS Fed. of Eur. Biochem. Soc.
- FISH fluorescence in situ hybridization
- FMF familial Mediterranean fever
- FRAXA fragile X locus
- FSHD facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
- FTICR fourier transform ioncyclotron resonance
- FVEA Fundacion Valenciana de Estudios Avanzados
- GAS Genome Automation System
- GBASE Genome Database of the Mouse
- GBR Global Business Research
- GDB Genome Database
- GDB/OMIM Genome Database/Online Mendelian
Inheritance in Man
- GESTEC Genome Science and Technology Center
- GIST Genome Informatics System of Transputers
- GLaRGG Great Lakes Regional Genetics Group
- GMCRF General Motors Cancer Res. Foundation
- GMD Genomic Map Design
- GPI Genetics and Public Issues Program
- GRAIL Gene Recognition and Analysis Internet Link
- GRC Gordon Res. Conf.
- GSA Genetics Societies of America
- GSDB Genome Sequence Data Base
- HAEC human artificial episomal chromosome
- HELSRD Health Effects and Life Science Research
Division
- HERAC Health and Environmental Research Advisory
Committee
- HGCC Human Genome Coordinating Committee
- HGM Human Genome Meeting
- HGMIS Human Genome Management Information System
- HGN Human Genome News
- HGP Human Genome Project
- HHMI Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- HICSS Hawaii Intl. Conf. on Systems Sci.
- HLA human leukocyte antigen
- HMDP Homology Database
- HNPCC hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer
- HSA human serum albumin
- HUGO Human Genome Organisation
- IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer
- IBC International Business Communications
- IBEX International Biotechnology EXpo
- IBF International Business Forum
- IBI Institute for Biotechnology Information
- ICES International Council of Electrophoresis
Societies
- ICGEB International Centre for Genetic
Engineering and Biotechnology
- ICHG International Congress of Human Genetics
- ICPEMC International Commission on Protection
Against Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens
- ICRF Imperial Cancer Research Fund
- IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers
- IG IntelliGenetics
- IGES International Genetics Epidemiology Societies
- IJCAI International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
- IMA Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
- IMACS International Association for Mathematics
and Computers In Simulation
- IMAGE Integrated Molecular Analysis of Gene
Expression
- IMGS Intl. Mammalian Genome Society
- INRIA French Natl. Inst. for Research in Computer
Science and Control
- IOM Institute of Medicine
- IOR Institute of Religion
- ISAG Intl. Society for Animal Genetics
- ISMB Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
- ISONG Intl. Soc. of Nurses in Genet.
- ISQL interactive standard query language
- ISTR Institute for Science Training and Research
- IUBMB Intl. Union of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology
- IU Indiana University
- IVD in vitro Diagnostic
- JGI Joint Genome Institute
- LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
- LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- LTI Life Technologies, Inc.
- MALDI matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization
- Mb megabase
- MBC Massachusetts Biotechnology Council
- MBL Marine Biological Laboratory
- MCD Mouse Cytogenetic Database
- MDA Muscular Dystrophy Assoc.
- MEMS Microelectromechanical Systems
- MGC Mouse Genome Conference
- MGD Mouse Genome Database
- MGI Microbial Genome Initiative
- MHC major histocompatibility complex
- MIMBD Meet. on the Interconnection of Mol. Biol.
Databases
- MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MMRF Marshfield Medical Research Foundation
- MNBWS Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium
- MOD March of Dimes
- MOU Memorandum of Understanding
- MRC Medical Research Council
- MS mass spectrometry
- NABT Natl. Assoc. of Biology Teachers
- NACHGR Natl. Advisory Council for Human Genome
Res.
- NAPBC Natl. Action Plan on Breast Cancer
- NAS Natl. Academy of Sciences
- NASA Natl. Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NBAC Natl. Bioethics Advisory Commission
- NCGR National Center for Genome Resources
- NCI Natl. Cancer Institute
- NCSA National Center for Supercomputing
Applications
- NCSL National Conference of State Legislatures
- NCSU North Carolina State University
- NEH National Endowment for the Humanities
- NFCR National Foundation for Cancer Research
- NHGRI Natl. Human Genome Res. Inst.
- NICHD National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development
- NIGMS National Institute of General Medical
Sciences
- NIH National Institutes of Health
- NIGMS Natl. Institute of General Medical Sciences
- NIST Natl. Inst. of Standards and Technology
- NLGLP National Laboratory Gene Library Project
- NLM National Library of Medicine
- NMHCC National Managed Health Care Congress
- nmr nuclear magnetic resonance
- NORD National Organization for Rare Disorders
- NRC National Research Council
- NRSA National Research Service Award
- NSF Natl. Sci. Foundation
- NSGC National Society of Genetic Counselors
- NSTA National Science Teachers Association
- NYAS New York Academy of Science
- OAINN Ohio Aerospace Institute Neural Networks
- OBER Office of Biological and Environmental
Research
- OHER Office of Health and Environmental Research
- OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
- OPRR Office of Protection from Res. Risks
- ORAU Oak Ridge Associated Universities
- ORDA NIH Office of Recombinant DNA Activities
- ORISE Oak Ridge Inst. for Science and Education
- ORF open reading frame
- ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- OSU Oregon State University
- OTA Office of Technology Assessment
- PAC P1 artificial chromosome
- PACHG Program Advisory Committee on the Human
Genome
- PCR polymerase chain reaction
- PFGE pulsed-field gel electrophresis
- PG Plant Genome
- PIR Protein Info. Resource
- PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- PRIM&R Public Responsibility in Medicine
& Research
- PSC Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- QDFM Quantitative DNA Fiber Mapping
- RAPD random amplified polymorphic DNA
- RARA retinoic acid receptor
- RECOMB Conference on Computational Molecular
Biology
- RFLP restriction fragment length polymorphism
- RH radiation hybrid
- RLGS Restriction Landmark Genomic Scanning
- SASE sample sequencing
- SBH sequencing by hybridization
- SBIR Small Business Innovation Research
- SCAN Sequence Comparison ANalysis Program
- SCE School of Continuing Education
- SCI Society of Chemical Industry
- SCW single-chromosome workshop
- SDC San Diego Conference
- SERGG Southeast Regional Genetics Group
- SHOM sequencing by hybridization on matrices
- SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics
- SIB Society for Industrial Biology
- SIM Society for Industrial Microbiology
- SIMS Societal Institute of the Mathematical
Sciences
- SIVB Society for In Vitro Biology
- SNL Sandia National Laboratory
- snRNP small nuclear ribonucleo protein particle
- SQL standard query language
- SSLP single-sequence length polymorphism
- SSR simple sequence repeat
- STM scanning tunneling microscope
- STRP short tandem repeat polymorphism
- STS sequence-tagged site
- SULS Suffolk Univ. Law School
- TCR T-cell receptor
- TIGR The Inst. for Genomic Research
- TIGR/NIST The Inst. for Genomic Res./Natl.
Inst. of Standards and Technol.
- UC University of California
- UCB University of California, Berkeley
- UCLA University of California, Los Angeles
- UICM Univ. of Illinois College of Medicine
- UMBC University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- UNC University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- UMDS United Medical & Dental Schools (Univ. of
London)
- UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific,
and Cultural Organization
- USDA U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
- UT University of Tennessee
- UW University of Washington
- WCCS Workshop on Complete cDNA Sequencing
- WHS Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
- WLMG Wellcome Laboratory for Molecular Genetics
- WSES World Scientific and Engineering Society
- WWW World Wide Web
- XIST candidate gene for X-inactivation center
- YAC yeast artificial chromosome