## Remove annotations

This CIF to CIF transformation removes annotations from the specification. This may reduce the size of the specification. It may also lead to the specification being supported by more tools, as the annotations may use features of the CIF language that certain tools don’t support.

### Supported specifications

This transformation supports all CIF specifications.

### Preprocessing

n/a

### Implementation details

All annotations are removed from the specification.

### Renaming

n/a

### Size considerations

Since information is removed from the specification, the specification can only become smaller as a result of this transformation.

### Optimality

n/a

### Annotations

This transformation removes all annotations.