[Psisoft-devl] RAF tools!

[Dan B. <dm...@mr...>]

Dear PsiMappers, 

I have been looking at old code to parse the ASTRAL RAF files. The RAF
files form the very core of SCOP, and allow very convenient mapping
between seqres and atom 'sequences' and residue identifiers (in the PDB
convention). 

This approach is very powerful, and avoids much of the complication of
using the SCOP parsable files with the 'raw' PDB data. Additionally, using
RAF allows you to generate ASTRAL sequence files automatically, which is
very useful for analysing alignments of these sequences. 

If anyone is interested I will upload the 'rafTools' package into psiSoft.

All the best,
Dan.