Acronyms

Acronym and initialism

  • ADA – Americans with Disabilities Act
  • ANL – Argonne National Laboratory, a Department of Energy Laboratory
  • BAC – bacterial artificial chromosome
  • cDNA – complementary deoxyribonucleic acid
  • DHHS – Department of Health and Human Services at National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • DNA – deoxyribonucleic acid
  • DNA – National Dyslexia Association 😉
  • DOE – Department of Energy
  • EEOC – Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  • ELSI – ethical, legal, and social issues
  • FY – federal fiscal year (October 1 to September 30)
  • FAQ: Frequently asked questions
  • GDB – Genome Database
  • GRAIL – Gene Recognition and Analysis Internet Link
  • HERAC – Health and Enviornmental Research Advisory Committee
  • HGI – Human Genome Initiative
  • HGP – Human Genome Project, Human Genome Program
  • HUGO – Human Genome Organisation
  • ICPEMC – International Commission for Protection Against Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens
  • IMAGE – Integrated Molecular Analysis of Gene Expression
  • IOM – Institute of Medicine
  • JGI – the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California. The JGI houses the DOE’s production sequencing facility.
  • LANL – Los Alamos National Laboratory, a Department of Energy Laboratory
  • LBNL – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a Department of Energy Laboratory
  • LLNL – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a Department of Energy Laboratory
  • MGP – Microbial Genome Project
  • MOU – memorandum of understanding
  • mRNA – messenger ribonucleic acid
  • NAS – National Academy of Sciences
  • NCHGR – National Center for Human Genome Research at National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • NHGRI – National Human Genome Research Institute at National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • NIGMS – National Institute of General Medical Sciences at National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • NIH – National Institutes of Health
  • NRC – National Research Council
  • OBER – Office of Biological and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy (formerly Office of Health and Environmental Research)
  • OHER – Office of Health and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy (now Office of Biological and Environmental Research)
  • ORNL – Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a Department of Energy Laboratory
  • OTA – Office of Technology Assessment
  • R&D – research and development
  • SBH – Sequencing by hybridization
  • STS – sequence tagged site
  • UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
  • YAC – yeast artificial chromosome

RTFM is an initialism for the direction “Read The Fucking Manual”. This instruction is sometimes given in response to a question when the person being asked believes that the question could be easily answered by reading the relevant user’s manual or instructions. In expurgated texts, substitutions such as “read the flaming manual” or “read the friendly manual” are used[1] (or similar variants). Initialisms similar to the one above include GIYF (“Google is your friend”) and LMGTFY (“let me google that for you”). These indicate that the item under question can easily be researched on the Internet.