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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) extracts single-particle density projections of individual biomolecules. Although cryo-EM is widely used for 3D reconstruction, due to its single-particle nature, it has the potential to provide…

Over the past decade, cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a primary method for determining near-native, near-atomic resolution 3D structures of biological macromolecules. In order to meet increasing demand for cryo-EM,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Paul T. Kim , Alex J. Noble , Anchi Cheng , Tristan Bepler

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

In cryo-electron microscopy (EM), molecular structures are determined from large numbers of projection images of individual particles. To harness the full power of this single-molecule information, we use the Bayesian inference of EM…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-17 Pilar Cossio , David Rohr , Fabio Baruffa , Markus Rampp , Volker Lindenstruth , Gerhard Hummer

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a technique for reconstructing the 3-dimensional (3D) structure of biomolecules (especially large protein complexes and molecular assemblies). As the resolution increases to the near-atomic scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Weijie Chen , Xinyan Wang , Yuhang Wang

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 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

In the past decade, deep conditional generative models have revolutionized the generation of realistic images, extending their application from entertainment to scientific domains. Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jiakai Zhang , Qihe Chen , Yan Zeng , Wenyuan Gao , Xuming He , Zhijie Liu , Jingyi Yu

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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-25 Nina Miolane , Frédéric Poitevin , Yee-Ting Li , Susan Holmes

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Qi Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Hai Lin , Mingxu Hu

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) studies using single particle reconstruction are extensively used to reveal structural information on macromolecular complexes. Aiming at the highest achievable resolution, state of the art electron…

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

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

Cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET) is a 3D imaging technique that enables the systemic study of shape, abundance, and distribution of macromolecular structures in single cells in near-atomic resolution. However, the systematic and efficient…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-29 Kai Yi , Jianye Pang , Yungeng Zhang , Xiangrui Zeng , Min Xu

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…

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

Recent breakthroughs in high-resolution imaging of biomolecules in solution with cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have unlocked new doors for the reconstruction of molecular volumes, thereby promising further advances in biology,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-27 Claire Donnat , Axel Levy , Frederic Poitevin , Ellen Zhong , Nina Miolane

Cryo-electron microscopy can now routinely deliver atomic resolution structures for a variety of biological systems. The relevance and value of these structures is directly related to their ability to help rationalize experimental…

Resolving the structural variability of proteins is often key to understanding the structure-function relationship of those macromolecular machines. Single particle analysis using Cryogenic electron microscopy (CryoEM), combined with…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-22 Muyuan Chen , Bogdan Toader , Roy Lederman

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