Validation and Deposition Interface

About the Validation and Deposition Interface

This interface allows you to upload, validate, edit and deposit CIF files.

Steps

The process of file deposition is pretty straightforward:

• Upload. The selected files are uploaded to the server;
• Validation. Our scripts perform various checks to see if all of the necessary data are present in the submitted files. If a file is found to be incorrect, it can be edited in the browser window and checked again. This step can be repeated as many times as needed;
• Deposition. The validated files can be deposited to COD. After a successful deposition COD numbers for the newly deposited structures will be displayed.

File formats

Currently we accept two types of files:

• Plain CIF files;
• ZIP archives that contain CIF files.