The system includes supportive programs and associated documents which were developed by the PDB staff and others. The associated documents consist of the PDB Contents Guide, the AutoDep pseudo-CIF dictionaries, the PDB Deposition Form, and the Help File for the PDB Deposition Form. These documents define and describe PDB data format. The purpose of AutoDep is to simplify the data submission procedure by taking advantage of Internet technologies. PDB processing programs are run on each new entry.
Output is returned to the depositor, and summarized in the associatedreport file.
Checks include symmetry and geometry checks, and the results are compared with those obtained for other structures with similar resolution in the Protein Data Bank. AutoDep 2.2 is a legacy program with extensive changes which should be used with great caution. This html file was last updated 27 April 1999.