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Cryogenic electron microscopy is widely used in structural biology, but its resolution is often limited by the dynamics of the macromolecule. Here, we developed a refinement protocol based on Gaussian mixture models that integrates particle…

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Cellular electron cryo-tomography enables the 3D visualization of cellular organization in the near-native state and at submolecular resolution. However, the contents of cellular tomograms are often complex, making it difficult to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-29 Xiangrui Zeng , Miguel Ricardo Leung , Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai , Min Xu

Cryo-EM is a powerful tool for understanding macromolecular structures, yet current methods for structure reconstruction are slow and computationally demanding. To accelerate research on pose estimation, we present CESPED, a new dataset…

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Self-supervised pre-training of image encoders is omnipresent in the literature, particularly following the introduction of Masked autoencoders (MAE). Current efforts attempt to learn object-centric representations from motion in videos. In…

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a powerful technique for resolving the three-dimensional structures of macromolecules. A key challenge in cryo-EM is characterizing continuous heterogeneity, where molecules adopt a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-20 Roey Yadgar , Roy R. Lederman , Yoel Shkolnisky

Cryo-EM data processing typically focuses on the structure of the main conformational state under investigation and discards images that belong to other states. This approach can reach atomic resolution, but ignores vast amounts of valuable…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-20 Felix Lambrecht , Andreas Kröpelin , Mario Lüttich , Michael Habeck , David Haselbach , Holger Stark

Particle picking is currently a critical step in the cryo-EM single particle reconstruction pipeline. Despite extensive work on this problem, for many data sets it is still challenging, especially for low SNR micrographs. We present the KLT…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-12-16 Amitay Eldar , Boris Landa , Yoel Shkolnisky

Cryo-Electron Tomography (cryo-ET) is a new 3D imaging technique with unprecedented potential for resolving submicron structural detail. Existing volume visualization methods, however, cannot cope with its very low signal-to-noise ratio. In…

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We introduce a new rotationally invariant viewing angle classification method for identifying, among a large number of Cryo-EM projection images, similar views without prior knowledge of the molecule. Our rotationally invariant features are…

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We presented a new 3D refinement method for Cryo-EM single particle analysis which can improve the resolution of final electron density map in this paper. We proposed to enforce both sparsity and smoothness to improve the regularity of…

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Advances in imagery at atomic and near-atomic resolution, such as cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), have led to an influx of high resolution images of proteins and other macromolecular structures to data banks worldwide. Producing a…

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In cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a microscope generates a top view of a sample of randomly-oriented copies of a molecule. The problem of single particle reconstruction (SPR) from cryo-EM is to use the resulting set of noisy 2D…

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We show that de-focused single particle images recorded using a cryo-electron microscope (cryoEM) system may be processed like a Fresnel zone in-line hologram to obtain physically meaningful quantitative phase maps associated with…

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Knowledge of a protein's atomic conformational ensemble is critical to determining its function, yet state-of-the-art ensemble prediction models are limited by lack of high-quality conformational data from simulation or experiment. Recent…

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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 tomography (cryo-ET) provides a unique window into molecular organization in cellular environments (in situ). However, the interpretation of molecular structural information is complicated by several intrinsic properties of…

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We present a geometry-aware method for heterogeneous single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) reconstruction that predicts atomic backbone conformations. To incorporate protein-structure priors, we represent the backbone as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jonathan Krook , Axel Janson , Joakim Andén , Melanie Weber , Ozan Öktem

The determination of molecular orientations is crucial for the three-dimensional reconstruction of Cryo-EM images. Traditionally addressed using the common-line method, this challenge is reformulated as a self-consistency error minimization…

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There is a clear need for developments in characterisation techniques that provide detailed information about structure-function relationships in biology. Using electron microscopy to achieve high resolution while maintaining a broad field…

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