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Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) enables high-resolution imaging of biomolecules, but structural heterogeneity remains a major challenge in 3D reconstruction. Traditional methods assume a discrete set of conformations, limiting their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Diego Sanchez Espinosa , Erik H Thiede , Yunan Yang

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for obtaining three-dimensional (3D) structures of biological macromolecules in native states. A minimum cryo-EM image data set for deriving a meaningful…

Applications · Statistics 2014-04-28 Ting-Li Chen , Dai-Ni Hsieh , Hung Hung , I-Ping Tu , Pei-Shien Wu , Yi-Ming Wu , Wei-Hau Chang , Su-Yun Huang

Protein structure prediction models are now capable of generating accurate 3D structural hypotheses from sequence alone. However, they routinely fail to capture the conformational diversity of dynamic biomolecular complexes, often requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Rishwanth Raghu , Axel Levy , Gordon Wetzstein , Ellen D. Zhong

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has revolutionized experimental protein structure determination. Despite advances in high resolution reconstruction, a majority of cryo-EM experiments provide either a single state of the studied…

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) provides images from different copies of the same biomolecule in arbitrary orientations. Here, we present an end-to-end unsupervised approach that learns individual particle orientations from cryo-EM…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Youssef S. G. Nashed , Frederic Poitevin , Harshit Gupta , Geoffrey Woollard , Michael Kagan , Chuck Yoon , Daniel Ratner

The computational pipelines of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) include an early particle-picking stage, in which a micrograph or tomogram is scanned to extract candidate particles,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Amnon Balanov , Alon Zabatani , Tamir Bendory

Single particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) allows for structures of proteins and protein complexes to be determined from images of non-crystalline specimens. Cryo-EM data analysis requires electron microscope images of randomly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-23 Jianhua Zhao , Marcus A. Brubaker , Samir Benlekbir , John L. Rubinstein

Discovering the 3D atomic structure of molecules such as proteins and viruses is a fundamental research problem in biology and medicine. Electron Cryomicroscopy (Cryo-EM) is a promising vision-based technique for structure estimation which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Marcus A. Brubaker , Ali Punjani , David J. Fleet

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has revolutionized structural biology by enabling near-atomic-level visualization of biomolecular assemblies. However, the exponential growth in cryo-EM data throughput and complexity, coupled with diverse…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-25 Weining Fu , Kai Shu , Kui Xu , Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang

Electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) produces three-dimensional (3D) maps of the electrostatic potential of biological macromolecules, including proteins. Along with knowledge about the imaged molecules, cryo-EM maps allow de novo atomic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-09 Kiarash Jamali , Dari Kimanius , Sjors H. W. Scheres

We describe a computational framework for hierarchical Bayesian inference with simple (typically single-plate) parametric graphical models that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate computations, enabling deployment on very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-18 János M. Szalai-Gindl , Thomas J. Loredo , Brandon C. Kelly , István Csabai , Tamás Budavári , László Dobos

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) enables single-particle analysis of biological macromolecules under strict low-dose imaging conditions, but the resulting micrographs often exhibit extremely low signal-to-noise ratios and weak particle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiaoqi Wu , Xueying Zhan , Wen Li , Junhao Wu , Xin Huang , Min Xu

We present a geometry-aware method for heterogeneous single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) reconstruction that predicts atomic backbone conformations. To incorporate protein-structure priors, we represent the backbone as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jonathan Krook , Axel Janson , Joakim Andén , Melanie Weber , Ozan Öktem

The structure and function of biological molecules are strongly influenced by the water and dissolved ions that surround them. This aqueous solution (solvent) exerts significant electrostatic forces in response to the biomolecule's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Matthew G. Knepley , Jaydeep P. Bardhan

Single-particle electron cryomicroscopy is an essential tool for high-resolution 3D reconstruction of proteins and other biological macromolecules. An important challenge in cryo-EM is the reconstruction of non-rigid molecules with parts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Amit Moscovich , Amit Halevi , Joakim Andén , Amit Singer

We present an accelerated pipeline, based on high-performance computing techniques and normalizing flows, for joint Bayesian parameter estimation and model selection and demonstrate its efficiency in gravitational wave astrophysics. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Alicja Polanska , Thibeau Wouters , Peter T. H. Pang , Kaze K. W. Wong , Jason D. McEwen

This paper discusses the potential of graphics processing units (GPUs) in high-dimensional optimization problems. A single GPU card with hundreds of arithmetic cores can be inserted in a personal computer and dramatically accelerates many…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-13 Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange , Marc A. Suchard

The three-dimensional structure of proteins plays a crucial role in determining their function. Protein structure prediction methods, like AlphaFold, offer rapid access to a protein structure. However, large protein complexes cannot be…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Gabriel Ducrocq , Lukas Grunewald , Sebastian Westenhoff , Fredrik Lindsten

Eulerian nonlinear uncertainty propagation methods often suffer from finite domain limitations and computational inefficiencies. A recent approach to this class of algorithm, Grid-based Bayesian Estimation Exploiting Sparsity, addresses the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-20 Benjamin L. Hanson , Carlos Rubio , Adrián García-Gutiérrez , Thomas Bewley

Cryo-electron microscopy (EM) single particle reconstruction is an entirely general technique for 3D structure determination of macromolecular complexes. However, because the images are taken at low electron dose, it is extremely hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yifeng Fan , Zhizhen Zhao