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A

• 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
• AANP American Association of Neuropathologists
• 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

B

• 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

C

• 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

D

• 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

E

• 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

F

• 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

G

• 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

H

• 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

I

• 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

J

• JGI Joint Genome Institute

K

• kb kilobase

L

• LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
• LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• LTI Life Technologies, Inc.

M

• 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

N

• 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
• NFID National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
• 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

O

• 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

P

• 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

Q

• QDFM Quantitative DNA Fiber Mapping

R

• 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

S

• 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
• SNP single nucleotide polymorphism
• 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

T

• TCR T-cell receptor
• TIGR The Inst. for Genomic Research
• TIGR/NIST The Inst. for Genomic Res./Natl. Inst. of Standards and Technol.

U

• 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

V

W

• 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

X

• XIST candidate gene for X-inactivation center

Y

• YAC yeast artificial chromosome

Z