[Psisoft-devl] Re: RAF tools!

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

One example (the reason I started the last mail but forgot...)

PDB 1grh ...

This guy has a seqres entry of 478 residues, but an atom entry for only 1 
residue!

The PDB file is a single residue!

You can mine such fun for yourself with rafTools.


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Dan Bolser wrote:

>
>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.
>
>