Human Genome Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Human Genome Acronyms

• 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
• 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
• AFIP/ARP — Armed Forces Inst. of Pathol./Am. Registry of Pathol.
• AFMR — American Federation of Medical Research
• 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
• 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
• BS/SCF — Biological Sequence/Structure Computational Facility
• BSCS — Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
• 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
• 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