Recent developments provide automated analysis of NMR assignments and 3D structures. These approaches are generally applicable to proteins ranging from about 50 to 150 amino acids. To date, little work has focused on the specific problems associated with nucleic acid structures. As a result, there has been no community-wide consensus reached on how to evaluate the accuracy and precision of a protein NMR structure. Nevertheless, when good quality data are available automated analysis of protein NMR assignment and structures can be both fast and reliable.