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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique in structural biology and drug discovery, enabling the study of biomolecules at high resolution. Significant advancements by structural biologists using cryo-EM have led to the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-05 Yi Zhou , Yilai Li , Jing Yuan , Quanquan Gu

Single-Particle Reconstruction (SPR) in Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) is the task of estimating the 3D structure of a molecule from a set of noisy 2D projections, taken from unknown viewing directions. Many algorithms for SPR start…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Eitan Levin , Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , Joe Kileel , Amit Singer

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

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…

Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has become an extremely powerful method for resolving structural details of large biomolecular complexes. However, challenging problems in single-particle methods remain open because of (1) the low…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-12 Shengnan Lyu , Christian Wülker , Yuqing Pan , Amitesh S. Jayaraman , Jianhao Zheng , Yilin Cai , Gregory S. Chirikjian

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

We consider the problem of recovering the three-dimensional atomic structure of a flexible macromolecule from a heterogeneous cryo-EM dataset. The dataset contains noisy tomographic projections of the electrostatic potential of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Willem Diepeveen , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Cryo-EM reconstruction algorithms seek to determine a molecule's 3D density map from a series of noisy, unlabeled 2D projection images captured with an electron microscope. Although reconstruction algorithms typically model the 3D volume as…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-06 Ellen D. Zhong , Adam Lerer , Joseph H. Davis , Bonnie Berger

In single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the efficient determination of orientation parameters for 2D projection images poses a significant challenge yet is crucial for reconstructing 3D structures. This task is complicated by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Szu-Chi Chung

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…

The recent improvements in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) in the past few years are now allowing to observe molecular complexes at atomic resolution. As a consequence, numerous structures derived from cryo-EM are now available in the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-04 Mikael Trellet , Gydo van Zundert , Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin

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

Understanding protein flexibility and its dynamic interactions with other molecules is essential for studying protein function. Although cryogenic electron microscopy(cryo-EM) provides an opportunity to observe macromolecular dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Bintao He , Yiran Cheng , Hongjia Li , Xiang Gao , Xin Gao , Fa Zhang , Renmin Han

Cryo-EM is an increasingly popular method for determining the atomic resolution 3D structure of macromolecular complexes (eg, proteins) from noisy 2D images captured by an electron microscope. The computational task is to reconstruct the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Shayan Shekarforoush , David B. Lindell , Marcus A. Brubaker , David J. Fleet

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ramin Norousi , Stephan Wickles , Thomas Becker , Roland Beckmann , Volker J. Schmid , Achim Tresch

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

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-21 Chengwei Zhang , Shimian Li , Yihao Niu , Zhen Zhu , Sihao Yuan , Sirui Liu , Yi Qin Gao

Structural dynamics of macromolecules is critical to their structural-function relationship. Cryogenic electron microscopy (CryoEM) provides snapshots of vitrified protein at different compositional and conformational states, and the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-27 Muyuan Chen , Muchen Li , Renjie Liao

Different tasks in the computational pipeline of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) require enhancing the quality of the highly noisy raw images. To this end, we develop an efficient algorithm for signal enhancement of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Guy Sharon , Yoel Shkolnisky , Tamir Bendory

Motivated by the task of 2-D classification in single particle reconstruction by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), we consider the problem of heterogeneous multireference alignment of images. In this problem, the goal is to estimate a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-03 Chao Ma , Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , Fred Sigworth , Amit Singer