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Single-particle cryo-EM has transformed structural biology but still faces challenges in resolving conformational heterogeneity at atomic resolution. Existing cryo-EM heterogeneity analysis methods either lack atomic details or tend to…

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From molecular imaging to wireless communications, the ability to align and reconstruct signals from multiple misaligned observations is crucial for system performance. We study the problem of multi-reference alignment (MRA), which arises…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Rob Romijnders , Gabriele Cesa , Christos Louizos , Kumar Pratik , Arash Behboodi

Motivation: Structural heterogeneity in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data represents a major challenge for high-resolution structure determination. Unsupervised classification may serve as the first step in the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-11-01 Jiayi Wu , Yong-Bei Ma , Charles Congdon , Bevin Brett , Shuobing Chen , Qi Ouyang , Youdong Mao

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is capable of producing reconstructed 3D images of biomolecules at near-atomic resolution. As such, it represents one of the most promising imaging techniques in structural biology. However, raw cryo-EM…

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A single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) measurement, called a micrograph, consists of multiple two-dimensional tomographic projections of a three-dimensional (3-D) molecular structure at unknown locations, taken under unknown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Shay Kreymer , Amit Singer , Tamir Bendory

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) emerges as a pivotal technology for determining the architecture of cells, viruses, and protein assemblies at near-atomic resolution. Traditional particle picking, a key step in cryo-EM, struggles with…

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The multi-reference alignment (MRA) problem involves reconstructing a signal from multiple noisy observations, each transformed by a random group element. In this paper, we focus on the group \(\mathrm{SO}(2)\) of in-plane rotations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Gil Drozatz , Tamir Bendory , Nir Sharon

Single particle cryo-electron microscopy is a vital tool for 3D characterization of protein structures. A typical workflow involves acquiring projection images of a collection of randomly oriented particles, picking and classifying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 S. V. Venkatakrishnan , Puneet Juneja , Hugh O'Neill

Multi-reference alignment entails estimating a signal in $\mathbb{R}^L$ from its circularly-shifted and noisy copies. This problem has been studied thoroughly in recent years, focusing on the finite-dimensional setting (fixed $L$).…

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Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) provides a unique opportunity to study the structural heterogeneity of biomolecules. Being able to explain this heterogeneity with atomic models would help our understanding of their functional…

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become an enabling technology in drug discovery and in understanding molecular bases of disease by producing near-atomic resolution (less than 0.4 nm) 3D reconstructions of biological…

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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…

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Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has emerged as a powerful tool for studying the structural heterogeneity of proteins and their complexes, offering insights into macromolecular dynamics directly within cells. Driven by recent…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-01 Jackson Carrion , Joseph H. Davis

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a tool of fundamental importance in structural biology, helping us understand the basic building blocks of life. The algorithmic challenge of cryo-EM is to jointly estimate the unknown 3D poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Axel Levy , Frédéric Poitevin , Julien Martel , Youssef Nashed , Ariana Peck , Nina Miolane , Daniel Ratner , Mike Dunne , Gordon Wetzstein

We consider the multi-target detection problem of recovering a set of signals that appear multiple times at unknown locations in a noisy measurement. In the low noise regime, one can estimate the signals by first detecting occurrences, then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , William Leeb , Eitan Levin , Amit Singer

In the multireference alignment model, a signal is observed by the action of a random circular translation and the addition of Gaussian noise. The goal is to recover the signal's orbit by accessing multiple independent observations. Of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Emmanuel Abbe , Tamir Bendory , William Leeb , João Pereira , Nir Sharon , Amit Singer

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) allows for the high-resolution reconstruction of 3D structures of proteins and other biomolecules. Successful reconstruction of both shape and movement greatly helps understand the fundamental processes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xinhang Liu , Yan Zeng , Yifan Qin , Hao Li , Jiakai Zhang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Single particle reconstruction (SPR) from cryo-electron microscopy (EM) is a technique in which the 3D structure of a molecule needs to be determined from its contrast transfer function (CTF) affected, noisy 2D projection images taken at…

Applications · Statistics 2017-06-30 Tejal Bhamre , Zhizhen Zhao , Amit Singer