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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot built on LangChain with a PostgreSQL + pgvector vector store and GPT-4.1-mini that answers questions about protein-structure deposition, validation, biocuration, and wwPDB policies. Uses pymupdf4llm for Markdown-preserving PDF extraction, two-stage document chunking, Maximal Marginal Relevance retrieval, a topical guardrail, and a dual-LLM architecture with separate question-condensing and response-generation models. Deployed at https://rcsb-deposit-help.rcsb.org.
Resource information
- Format
- zip
- Original repository
- 19560785
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.19560785
- Credit basis
- Creators in Zenodo record metadata
- Access
- Open files available from the original Zenodo deposit
- Last checked
- Nov 5, 2026
- License
- mit-license
- Last record update
- Nov 5, 2026
About this resource
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot built on LangChain with a PostgreSQL + pgvector vector store and GPT-4.1-mini that answers questions about protein-structure deposition, validation, biocuration, and wwPDB policies. Uses pymupdf4llm for Markdown-preserving PDF extraction, two-stage document chunking, Maximal Marginal Relevance retrieval, a topical guardrail, and a dual-LLM architecture with separate question-condensing and response-generation models. Deployed at https://rcsb-deposit-help.rcsb.org.
