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In July 2012 the General Assembly of the United Nations resolved that 2014 should be the International Year of Crystallography, 100 years since the award of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of X-ray diffraction by crystals. On this special…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Toshikazu Sunada

Advances in cryogenic electron microscopy have opened new avenues for probing quantum phenomena in correlated materials. This study reports the installation and performance of a new side-entry condenZero cryogenic cooling system for JEOL…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-30 Young-Hoon Kim , Fehmi Sami Yasin , Na Yeon Kim , Max Birch , Xiuzhen Yu , Akiko Kikkawa , Yasujiro Taguchi , Jiaqiang Yan , Miaofang Chi

Host-guest interactions govern the chemistry of a broad range of functional materials. However, the weak bonding between host and guest prevents atomic-resolution studies of their structure and chemistry using transmission electron…

Quantitative microstructural characterization is fundamental to materials science, where electron micrograph (EM) provides indispensable high-resolution insights. However, progress in deep learning-based EM characterization has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Nan wang , Zhiyi Xia , Yiming Li , Shi Tang , Zuxin Fan , Xi Fang , Haoyi Tao , Xiaochen Cai , Guolin Ke , Linfeng Zhang , Yanhui Hong

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) provides direct 3D visualization of macromolecules inside the cell, enabling analysis of their in situ morphology. This morphology can be regarded as an SE(3)-invariant, denoised volumetric representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Mostofa Rafid Uddin , Mahek Vora , Qifeng Wu , Muyuan Chen , Min Xu

Cryo-electron tomography enables 3D visualization of cells in a near native state at molecular resolution. The produced cellular tomograms contain detailed information about all macromolecular complexes, their structures, their abundances…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-30 Min Xu , Elitza I Tocheva , Yi-Wei Chang , Grant J Jensen , Frank Alber

The central problem in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is to recover the 3D structure from noisy 2D projection images which requires estimating the missing projection angles (poses). Recent methods attempted to solve the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Lin Yao , Ruihan Xu , Zhifeng Gao , Guolin Ke , Yuhang Wang

The single-particle cryo-EM field faces the persistent challenge of preferred orientation, lacking general computational solutions. We introduce cryoPROS, an AI-based approach designed to address the above issue. By generating the auxiliary…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-27 Hui Zhang , Dihan Zheng , Qiurong Wu , Nieng Yan , Zuoqiang Shi , Mingxu Hu , Chenglong Bao

Recent advances in quantum crystallography have shown that, beyond conventional charge density refinement, a one-electron reduced density matrix (1-RDM) satisfying N-representability conditions can be reconstructed using jointly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Sizhuo Yu , Jean-Michel Gillet

A practical method utilising three-dimensional image pattern matching is proposed which, in principle, is capable of unambiguous determination of the types and positions of atoms in small molecules from defocus series collected at only a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 T. E. Gureyev , H. M. Quiney , A. Kozlov , L. J. Allen

Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) is a technique that captures images of biological samples at different tilts, preserving their native state as much as possible. Along with the partial tilt series and noise, one of the major challenges in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Vinith Kishore , Valentin Debarnot , Ivan Dokmanić

Microscopy has been key to tremendous advances in science, technology, and medicine, revealing structure and dynamics across time and length scales. However, combining high spatial and temporal resolution in a non-invasive, label-free…

The understanding of protein structure, folding, and interaction with other proteins remains one of the grand challenges of modern biology. Tremendous progress has been made thanks to X-ray- or electron-based techniques that have provided…

We introduce DiffFit, a differentiable algorithm for fitting protein atomistic structures into an experimental reconstructed Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) volume map. In structural biology, this process is necessary to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-09 Deng Luo , Zainab Alsuwaykit , Dawar Khan , Ondřej Strnad , Tobias Isenberg , Ivan Viola

A surface integral representation of Maxwell's equations allows the efficient electromagnetic (EM) modeling of three-dimensional structures with a two-dimensional discretization, via the boundary element method (BEM). However, existing BEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Shashwat Sharma , Piero Triverio

The aim of this paper is to give an introductory review of the cryoelectron microscopy as a complex data source for the most of the system biology branches, including the most perspective non-local approaches known as "localomics" and…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-20 Oleg V. Gradov , Margaret A. Gradova

Electron ptychography has seen a recent surge of interest for phase sensitive imaging at atomic or near-atomic resolution. However, applications are so far mainly limited to radiation-hard samples because the required doses are too high for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Philipp Michael Pelz , Wen Xuan Qiu , Robert Bücker , Günther Kassier , R. J. Dwayne Miller

Motivation: Cellular Electron CryoTomography (CECT) is an emerging 3D imaging technique that visualizes subcellular organization of single cells at submolecular resolution and in near-native state. CECT captures large numbers of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-16 Yixiu Zhao , Xiangrui Zeng , Qiang Guo , Min Xu

*To be published in Springer Handbook of Surface Science (Springer Verlag) [Preprint]* The capability to display images containing chemical, magnetic and structural information and to perform spectroscopy and diffraction from a {\mu}m-sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Alessandro Sala

The ribosome is a macromolecular complex which is responsible for protein synthesis in all living cells according to their transcribed genetic information. Using X-ray crystallography and, more recently, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM),…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Lars V. Bock , Michal H. Kolář , Helmut Grubmüller