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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…

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With the recent advances in machine learning for quantum chemistry, it is now possible to predict the chemical properties of compounds and to generate novel molecules. Existing generative models mostly use a string- or graph-based…

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Electron microscopy (EM) images exhibit anisotropic axial resolution due to the characteristics inherent to the imaging modality, presenting challenges in analysis and downstream tasks.In this paper, we propose a diffusion-model-based…

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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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Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently joined X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy as a high-resolution structural method to resolve biological macromolecules. In a cryo-EM experiment, the microscope produces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , William Leeb , Eitan Levin , Amit Singer

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has achieved near-atomic level resolution of biomolecules by reconstructing 2D micrographs. However, the resolution and accuracy of the reconstructed particles are significantly reduced due to the…

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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…

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Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-14 Min Xu , Xiaoqi Chai , Hariank Muthakana , Xiaodan Liang , Ge Yang , Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai , Eric Xing

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We introduce a Bayesian genetic algorithm for reconstructing atomic models of nanoparticles from a single projection using Z-contrast imaging. The number of atoms in a projected atomic column obtained from annular dark field scanning…

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Machine learning in drug discovery has been focused on virtual screening of molecular libraries using discriminative models. Generative models are an entirely different approach that learn to represent and optimize molecules in a continuous…

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