Changes and additions from ASTRAL 2.04 to 2.05:

* Update to PAST (PDB Archival Snapshot Toolkit)

We have released PAST 1.4, which includes the "PDB format-like file"
bundles that are produced for large PDB entries in the mirrored
directory structure.  These entries are not yet included in SCOPe
(although the split PDB structures they replaced are).  We expect to
include these entries in the next stable SCOPe release, after we
upgrade our software to process these bundled files.

PAST may be downloaded from the "Downloads" tab.


* Update to XML2RAF

We released XML2RAF 1.02 to fix a bug in handling mis-formatted PDBML
files, in which multi-letter chain identifiers were used.  The new
software ignores these chains rather than producing a malformed RAF
line.

XML2RAF may be downloaded from the "Downloads" tab.


* Domain sequences for SCOPe classes 8 and above, based on ATOM records

We have added two new files to the distribution, at a user's request:

astral-ntcscopedom-atom-gd-all-2.05.fa
astral-ntcscopedom-atom-gd-reject-2.05.fa

These contain sequences for SCOPe domains outside the first seven SCOP
classes, based on PDB ATOM records.  ("NTC" stands for "Not true
classes").  The sequences can also be downloaded from the "Other
sequences and subsets" page under the ASTRAL tab.

These complement the SEQRES-based sequences for such domains, which
have been produced since ASTRAL 1.59.


* Updates to SQL Schema

We updated our schema to:

1) Link some comments to publication records in PubMed (the link_pubmed
table), and

2) Track which entries where annotated using the new hybrid curation
system, in which predictions made by our automated method that are not
high-confidence are verified and corrected by human curators, prior to
adding the domains to SCOPe.  There is a new entry in the scop_curation_type
table to reflect these entries, which is linked to the curation_type_id
field in scop_node.

Our data in SQL format can be obtained under "Downloads" tab.