Appendix B
Acronyms
AAALAC
American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care
ABRC
Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center
AIMS
Arabidopsis Information Management Center
APAD
Acquisition, preservation, authentication, and distribution
ATCC
American Type Culture Collection
AtDB
Arabidopsis thaliana Database
BSL-3
biological safety level 3
CCD
charge-coupled device
CESR
Cornell Electron-Positron Storage Ring
CHESS
see MacCHESS
CRS
Collection, Research, and Services
DOE
U.S. Department of Energy
EST(s)
expressed sequence tag(s)
FISH
fluorescence in situ hybridization
HIV
human immunodeficiency virus
IACUC
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
IDA(s)
international depository authority(ies)
IMAGE
Integrated Molecular Analysis of Genome Expression Consortium
IMR
Induced Mutant Resource
IOM
Institute of Medicine
ISDB
integrated scientific database
JAX
Jackson Laboratory mouse code
LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
MacCHESS
Macromolecular Crystallography Resource at the Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source
MAD
multiple wavelength anomolous diffraction
MIR
multiple isomorphous replacement
MSDN
Microbial Strain Data Network
NAS
National Academy of Sciences
NASC
Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre
NCBI
National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCRR
National Center for Research Resources
NIH
National Institutes of Health
NMR
nuclear magnetic resonance
NRC
National Research Council
NSF
National Science Foundation
OPRR
Office for Protection Against Research Risks
PCR
polymerase chain reaction
R&D
research and development
STS
sequence tagged sites
TJL
The Jackson Laboratory
USDA
U.S. Department of Agriculture
WDC
World Data Center
WRPRC
Washington Regional Primate Research Center
YAC(s)
yeast artificial chromosome(s)
