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ACRONYM	TITLE	OFFICER	INTERNET
CODATA	Committee on Data for Science and Technology	J.Rumble, NIST (pres.)	http://www.codata.org
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility	J.L. Edwards (Exec. Secr.), <st1:place><st1:city>Univ. of Copenhagen </st1:city>, <st1:country-region>Denmark </st1:country-region></st1:place>	http://www.gbif.org
ICSU	Int.Council for Science	T. Rosswall (ex. dir.)	http://www.icsu.org
ISCB	Int. Society for Computational Biology	P.E. Bourne (pres.)	http://www.iscb.org
IUBG	Inter-Union Bioinformatics Group	J. Garnier, Paris; NIH (chair)	http://md.chem.rug.nl/ ~berends/IUBG/
IUBMB	Int. Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	B.F.C. Clark (pres.) J.H. Weil (secr.gen.)	http://www.iubmb.org
IUCr	Int. Union of Crystallography	H. Schenk (pres.) M.H. Dacombe (ex.secr.)	http://www.iucr.ac.uk
IUPAB	Int. Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics	J. Garnier (pres.) F. Parak (secr.gen.)	http://www.iupab.org
IUPAC	Int. Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry	P. Steyn (pres.) J.W. Jost (ex.dir.)	http://www.iupac.org
IUPAP	Int. Union of Pure and Applied Physics	B. Richter (pres.) R. Turlay (secr.gen.)	http://www.iupap.org
JCBN (with NC-IUBMB)	Joint Com. on Biological Nomenclature (with Nomenclature Committee of IUBMB)	R.Cammack (chair) S. Boyce (secr.)	http://www.iubmb.org/ nomenclature
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation	Matsuura (dir. gen.)	http://www.unesco.org
WIPO	World Intellectual Property Organization	K. Idris (dir. gen.)	http://www.wipo.int