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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for obtaining three-dimensional (3D) structures of biological macromolecules in native states. A minimum cryo-EM image data set for deriving a meaningful…

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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

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an emerging experimental method to characterize the structure of large biomolecular assemblies. Single particle cryo-EM records 2D images (so-called micrographs) of projections of the three-dimensional…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-02 Mikhail Langovoy , Michael Habeck , Bernhard Schoelkopf

Enhancing cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) 3D density maps at intermediate resolution (4-8 {\AA}) is crucial in protein structure determination. Recent advances in deep learning have led to the development of automated approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Chenwei Zhang , Khanh Dao Duc

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

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

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) emerges as a pivotal technology for determining the architecture of cells, viruses, and protein assemblies at near-atomic resolution. Traditional particle picking, a key step in cryo-EM, struggles with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-17 Chentianye Xu , Xueying Zhan , Min Xu

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) enables single-particle analysis of biological macromolecules under strict low-dose imaging conditions, but the resulting micrographs often exhibit extremely low signal-to-noise ratios and weak particle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiaoqi Wu , Xueying Zhan , Wen Li , Junhao Wu , Xin Huang , Min Xu

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

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a widely used technique for recovering the 3-D structure of biological molecules from a large number of experimentally generated noisy 2-D tomographic projection images of the 3-D structure, taken from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Oscar Mickelin , Amit Singer , Yuguan Wang

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become an enabling technology in drug discovery and in understanding molecular bases of disease by producing near-atomic resolution (less than 0.4 nm) 3D reconstructions of biological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Hong Xu , David E. Timm , Shireen Y. Elhabian

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

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 become a major experimental technique to determine the structures of large protein complexes and molecular assemblies, as evidenced by the 2017 Nobel Prize. Although cryo-EM has been drastically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-01 Dong Si , Andrew Nakamura , Runbang Tang , Haowen Guan , Jie Hou , Ammaar Firozi , Renzhi Cao , Kyle Hippe , Minglei Zhao

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

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) enables the atomic-resolution visualization of biomolecules; however, modern direct detectors generate data volumes that far exceed the available storage and transfer bandwidth, thereby constraining…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Zain Shabeeb , Daniel Saeedi , Darin Tsui , Vida Jamali , Amirali Aghazadeh

A major challenge in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is that the orientations adopted by the 3D particles prior to imaging are unknown; yet, this knowledge is essential for high-resolution reconstruction. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Jelena Banjac , Laurène Donati , Michaël Defferrard

Cryogenic electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) has become an essential tool for capturing high-resolution biological structures. Despite its advantage in visualizations, the large storage size of Cryo-EM data file poses significant challenges for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chunyu Zou

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful imaging technique for reconstructing three-dimensional molecular structures from noisy tomographic projection images of randomly oriented particles. We introduce a new data fusion framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Joe Kileel , Oscar Mickelin , Amit Singer , Sheng Xu

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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