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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
WWW World Wide Web
X
XIST candidate gene for X-inactivation center
Y
YAC yeast artificial chromosome
Z