GenPept is a genetic sequence databank which contains translated protein-coding sequences.
Previous releases of GenPept were produced by translating the GenBank flat file release.
Beginning with Release 70, GenBank entries include a translation of each valid CDS.
This information is associated with each CDS through the addition of a /translation qualifier in the GenBank Feature Table.
The GenPept amino acid sequence is simply copied from the value of the /translation qualifier.

GenPept is maintained because its data format is useful for similarity searching with existing software.