There are several variants of documentation available.

• A brief overview and a glimpse at the user interface:

  The paper is the most concise description of the overal package. The tour offers insight into the user interface.

• An in-depth understanding of the system, information on installing the system and a tutorial for writing programs with GenDB can be found in the GenDB Wiki.

• For software developers the API documentation of all GenDB CORE modules is available online. You can also read the POD documentation of each module by using 'perldoc' on the corresponding Perl module.

  Some example programs are also listed in the Wiki.

• If you encounter errors or inconsistencies you are always welcome to improve the documentation or report a bug using the Bugzilla bug tracking system.

• We also maintain a list of frequently asked questions.

• GenDB -- an open source genome annotation system for prokaryote genomes
  Folker Meyer, Alexander Goesmann, Alice C. McHardy, Daniela Bartels, Thomas Bekel, Jörn Clausen, Jörn Kalinowski, Burkhard Linke, Oliver Rupp, Robert Giegerich and Alfred Pühler in: Nucleic Acids Research, 2003, Vol.31, No.8, 2187-2195

• Guideline for annotating genomes with GenDB 2 - Webinterface