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Simulation-based inference provides a powerful framework for cryo-electron microscopy, employing neural networks in methods like CryoSBI to infer biomolecular conformations via learned latent representations. This latent space represents a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-05 Luke Evans , Octavian-Vlad Murad , Lars Dingeldein , Pilar Cossio , Roberto Covino , Marina Meila

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

The dynamics of biomolecules are crucial for our understanding of their functioning in living systems. However, current 3D imaging techniques, such as cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), require freezing the sample, which limits the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-24 Enze Ye , Yuhang Wang , Hong Zhang , Yiqin Gao , Huan Wang , He Sun

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Apoorv Pant , Manidipa Banerjee , Kedar Khare

3D fragment reassembly aims to recover the rigid poses of unordered fragment point clouds or meshes in a common object coordinate system to reconstruct the complete shape. The problem becomes particularly challenging as the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hanze Jia , Chunshi Wang , Yuxiao Yang , Zhonghua Jiang , Yawei Luo , Shuainan Ye , Tan Tang

Instance segmentation in electron microscopy (EM) volumes is tough due to complex shapes and sparse annotations. Self-supervised learning helps but still struggles with intricate visual patterns in EM. To address this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yinda Chen , Wei Huang , Xiaoyu Liu , Shiyu Deng , Qi Chen , Zhiwei Xiong

Cryogenic electron tomography is a technique for imaging biological samples in 3D. A microscope collects a series of 2D projections of the sample, and the goal is to reconstruct the 3D density of the sample called the tomogram.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Simon Wiedemann , Reinhard Heckel

The interaction of a protein with its environment can be understood and controlled via its 3D structure. Experimental methods for protein structure determination, such as X-ray crystallography or cryogenic electron microscopy, shed light on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Axel Levy , Eric R. Chan , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Frédéric Poitevin , Ellen D. Zhong , Gordon Wetzstein

A crucial step in single particle analysis (SPA) of cryogenic electron microscopy (Cryo-EM), 2D classification and alignment takes a collection of noisy particle images to infer orientations and group similar images together. Averaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Supawit Chockchowwat , Chandrajit L. Bajaj

In single particle reconstruction (SPR) from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the 3D structure of a molecule needs to be determined from its 2D projection images taken at unknown viewing directions. Zvi Kam showed already in 1980 that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Tejal Bhamre , Teng Zhang , Amit Singer

Accurate pose estimation and shift correction are key challenges in cryo-EM due to the very low SNR, which directly impacts the fidelity of 3D reconstructions. We present an approach for pose estimation in cryo-EM that leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kaishva Chintan Shah , Virajith Boddapati , Karthik S. Gurumoorthy , Sandip Kaledhonkar , Ajit Rajwade

The mode of action of proteins is to a large extent given by their ability to adopt different conformations. This is why imaging single biomolecules at atomic resolution is one of the ultimate goals of biophysics and structural biology. The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Jean-Nicolas Longchamp , Tatiana Latychevskaia , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink

Recent advancements in deep learning for predicting 3D protein structures have shown promise, particularly when leveraging inputs like protein sequences and Cryo-Electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) images. However, these techniques often fall…

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Structure-informed protein representation learning is essential for effective protein function annotation and \textit{de novo} design. However, the presence of inherent noise in both crystal and AlphaFold-predicted structures poses…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-25 Zhongyue Zhang , Runze Ma , Yanjie Huang , Shuangjia Zheng

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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-27 Ngan Nguyen , Ciril Bohak , Dominik Engel , Peter Mindek , Ondřej Strnad , Peter Wonka , Sai Li , Timo Ropinski , Ivan Viola

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) is an increasingly popular method for protein structure determination. However, identifying a sufficient number of particles for analysis (often >100,000) can take months of manual effort. Current…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-17 Tristan Bepler , Andrew Morin , Julia Brasch , Lawrence Shapiro , Alex J. Noble , Bonnie Berger

High-fidelity electron microscopy simulations required for quantitative crystal structure refinements face a fundamental challenge: while physical interactions are well-described theoretically, real-world experimental effects are…

Electrospray ion beam deposition (ESIBD) is the intact, chemically selective deposition of molecular ions on surfaces in vacuum. Here, we present a general method and dedicated instrumentation for ESIBD-based cryoEM sample preparation of…

Foundation models in computer vision have demonstrated exceptional performance in zero-shot and few-shot tasks by extracting multi-purpose features from large-scale datasets through self-supervised pre-training methods. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yingjun Shen , Haizhao Dai , Qihe Chen , Yan Zeng , Jiakai Zhang , Yuan Pei , Jingyi Yu

Laser flash melting and revitrification experiments have recently improved the time resolution of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to the microsecond timescale, making it fast enough to observe many of the protein motions that are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-19 Wyatt A. Curtis , Constantin R. Krüger , Axel P. Tracol Gavard , Jakub Wenz , Marcel Drabbels , Ulrich J. Lorenz