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Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an invaluable technique for determining high-resolution three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules using transmission particle images. The inherent symmetry in these macromolecules…

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a powerful technique for determining the three-dimensional structures of biological molecules at near-atomic resolution. However, reconstructing helical assemblies presents unique challenges…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-16 Guy Shapira , Yoel Shkolnisky

Constructing of molecular structural models from Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) density volumes is the critical last step of structure determination by Cryo-EM technologies. Methods have evolved from manual construction by structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Kui Xu , Zhe Wang , Jiangping Shi , Hongsheng Li , Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a major experimental technique to determine the structures of large protein complexes and molecular assemblies, as evidenced by the 2017 Nobel Prize. Although cryo-EM has been drastically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-01 Dong Si , Andrew Nakamura , Runbang Tang , Haowen Guan , Jie Hou , Ammaar Firozi , Renzhi Cao , Kyle Hippe , Minglei Zhao

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) is an indispensable technique for determining the 3D structures of dynamic biomolecular complexes. While typically applied to image a single molecular species, cryo-EM has the potential for structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jeffrey Gu , Minkyu Jeon , Ambri Ma , Serena Yeung-Levy , Ellen D. Zhong

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an experimental technique for protein structure determination that images an ensemble of macromolecules in near-physiological contexts. While recent advances enable the reconstruction of dynamic…

Macromolecules change their shape (conformation) in the process of carrying out their functions. The imaging by cryo-electron microscopy of rapidly-frozen, individual copies of macromolecules (single particles) is a powerful and general…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-22 Bogdan Toader , Fred J. Sigworth , Roy R. Lederman

A major challenge in single particle reconstruction from cryo-electron microscopy is to establish a reliable ab-initio three-dimensional model using two-dimensional projection images with unknown orientations. Common-lines based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Lanhui Wang , Amit Singer , Zaiwen Wen

The goal of cryo-electron microscopy (EM) is to reconstruct the 3-dimensional structure of a molecule from a collection of its 2-dimensional projected images. In this article, we show that the basic premise of cryo-EM --- patching together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Ke Ye , Lek-Heng Lim

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

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) remains pivotal in structural biology, yet the task of protein particle picking, integral for 3D protein structure construction, is laden with manual inefficiencies. While recent AI tools such as Topaz and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Fei He , Zhiyuan Yang , Mingyue Gao , Biplab Poudel , Newgin Sam Ebin Sam Dhas , Rajan Gyawali , Ashwin Dhakal , Jianlin Cheng , Dong Xu

Electron cryo-tomography (cryo-ET) enables 3D imaging of complex, radiation-sensitive structures with molecular detail. However, image contrast from the interference of scattered electrons is nonlinear with atomic density and multiple…

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently joined X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy as a high-resolution structural method for biological macromolecules. Cryo-EM was selected by Nature Methods as Method of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Amit Singer

The CryoEM single particle imaging method has recently received broad attention in the field of structural biology for determining the structures of biological molecules. The structures can be resolved to near-atomic resolutions after…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-27 Yihua Wang , Daqi Yu , Qi Ouyang , Haiguang Liu

Cryo-EM is a transformational paradigm in molecular biology where computational methods are used to infer 3D molecular structure at atomic resolution from extremely noisy 2D electron microscope images. At the forefront of research is how to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-12 Shayan Shekarforoush , David B. Lindell , Marcus A. Brubaker , David J. Fleet

The mode of action of proteins is to a large extent given by their ability to adopt different conformations. This is why imaging single biomolecules at atomic resolution is one of the ultimate goals of biophysics and structural biology. The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Jean-Nicolas Longchamp , Tatiana Latychevskaia , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink

Single-particle electron microscopy is a modern technique that biophysicists employ to learn the structure of proteins. It yields data that consist of noisy random projections of the protein structure in random directions, with the added…

Applications · Statistics 2012-03-01 Victor M. Panaretos , Kjell Konis

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

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