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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

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a cornerstone of structural biology, enabling near-atomic resolution analysis of macromolecules through advanced computational methods. However, the development of cryo-EM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Runmin Jiang , Genpei Zhang , Yuntian Yang , Siqi Wu , Minhao Wu , Wanyue Feng , Yizhou Zhao , Xi Xiao , Xiao Wang , Tianyang Wang , Xingjian Li , Muyuan Chen , Min Xu

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

Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a key technology to determine the structure of proteins, particularly large protein complexes and assemblies in recent years. A key challenge in cryo-EM data analysis is to automatically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-04 Nabin Giri , Raj S. Roy , Jianlin Cheng

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 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

Single particle cryo-electron microscopy has become a critical tool in structural biology over the last decade, able to achieve atomic scale resolution in three dimensional models from hundreds of thousands of (noisy) two-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Aaditya V. Rangan , Leslie Greengard

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

Background: Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a popular tool for structural determination of biological macromolecular complexes. High-resolution cryo-EM reconstruction often requires hundreds of thousands of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-09-05 Yanan Zhu , Qi Ouyang , Youdong Mao

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

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has transformed structural biology by allowing to reconstruct 3D biomolecular structures up to near-atomic resolution. However, the 3D reconstruction process remains challenging, as the 3D structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Bongjin Koo , Julien Martel , Ariana Peck , Axel Levy , Frédéric Poitevin , Nina Miolane

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an emerging imaging modality capable of visualizing proteins and macro-molecular complexes at near-atomic resolution. The low electron-doses used to prevent sample radiation damage,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Qinwen Huang , Ye Zhou , Xiaochen Du , Reed Chen , Jianyou Wang , Cynthia Rudin , Alberto Bartesaghi

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently become a premier method for obtaining high-resolution structures of biological macromolecules. However, it is limited to biomolecular samples with low conformational heterogeneity, where all…

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

Determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins and protein complexes at atomic resolution is a fundamental task in structural biology. Over the last decade, remarkable progress has been made using "single particle" cryo-electron…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-05 Alex Barnett , Leslie Greengard , Andras Pataki , Marina Spivak

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

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

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) 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

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