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 # Chemscraper
 
-This project was generated with [Angular CLI](https://github.com/angular/angular-cli) version 15.1.6.
+## Backend repositories & related codebases
+
+Chemscraper frontend leverages these backends to parse chemical symbols and render the results.
+
+* [Chemscraper backend](https://gitlab.com/dprl/graphics-extraction/-/tree/prod), the primary entrypoint into backend code.
+* [Symbolscraper container](https://gitlab.com/dprl/symbolscraper-server), chemical parsing of parsing *'born digital'* PDFs.
+* [YOLO container](https://gitlab.com/dprl/yolov8sever) for localizing chemical symbols.
+* [Line-of-sight with Graph Attention Parser (LGAP)](https://gitlab.com/dprl/lgap-parser), visual parser to recognize chemical symbols from images.
+
+These 4 containers are built via [this Docker Compose](https://gitlab.com/dprl/dprl-alphasynthesis), and deployed via [this Helm chart](https://github.com/moleculemaker/chemscraper-helm-chart) in Kubernetes.
 
 ## Development server
 
-For marwin.js license add the following lines to the ~/.npmrc file:
+This project was generated with [Angular CLI](https://github.com/angular/angular-cli) version 15.1.6.
+
+For marvin.js license add the following lines to your `~/.npmrc`:
 ```
 @chemaxon:registry=https://hub.chemaxon.com/artifactory/api/npm/npm/
 hub.chemaxon.com/artifactory/api/npm/npm/:_auth="<auth>"