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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…

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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…

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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,…

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an imaging modality that provides unique insights into the dynamics of proteins and other building blocks of life. The algorithmic challenge of jointly estimating the poses, 3D structure, and…

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Throughout the history of electron microscopy, ribosomes have served as an ideal subject for imaging and technological development, which in turn has driven our understanding of ribosomal biology. Here, we provide a historical perspective…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-31 Samantha M. Webster , Mira B. May , Barrett M. Powell , Joseph H. Davis

Determining the structure of a protein has been a decades-long open question. A protein's three-dimensional structure often poses nontrivial computation costs, when classical simulation algorithms are utilized. Advances in the transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Chen Dun , Qiutai Pan , Shikai Jin , Ria Stevens , Mitchell D. Miller , George N. Phillips, , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables in situ visualization of macromolecular structures, where subtomogram analysis tasks such as classification, alignment, and averaging are critical for structural determination. However, effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Runmin Jiang , Wanyue Feng , Yuntian Yang , Shriya Pingulkar , Hong Wang , Xi Xiao , Xiaoyu Cao , Genpei Zhang , Xiao Wang , Xiaolong Wu , Tianyang Wang , Yang Liu , Xingjian Li , Min Xu

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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While many good textbooks are available on Protein Structure, Molecular Simulations, Thermodynamics and Bioinformatics methods in general, there is no good introductory level book for the field of Structural Bioinformatics. This book aims…

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-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables structural characterization of biomolecules under near-native conditions. Existing approaches for interpreting the resulting three-dimensional volumes are computationally expensive and have…

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We put forward the idea of establishing a novel interdisciplinary field of research at the interface between quantum mechanics and proteomics. The new field, called quantum proteomics, is defined as the large-scale study of the electronic…

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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…

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Cellular Electron Cryotomography (CryoET) offers the ability to look inside cells and observe macromolecules frozen in action. A primary challenge for this technique is identifying and extracting the molecular components within the crowded…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-04 Muyuan Chen , Wei Dai , Ying Sun , Darius Jonasch , Cynthia Y He , Michael F. Schmid , Wah Chiu , Steven J Ludtke

Determining the 3D structures of biological molecules is a key problem for both biology and medicine. Electron Cryomicroscopy (Cryo-EM) is a promising technique for structure estimation which relies heavily on computational methods to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-29 Ali Punjani , Marcus A. Brubaker

Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) is a Nobel prize-winning technology for determining the 3D structure of particles at near-atomic resolution. A fundamental step in the recovering of the 3D single-particle structure is to align its 2D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Koby Bibas , Gili Weiss-Dicker , Dana Cohen , Noa Cahan , Hayit Greenspan

Single particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an imaging technique capable of recovering the high-resolution 3-D structure of biological macromolecules from many noisy and randomly oriented projection images. One notable…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-30 Andy Zhang , Oscar Mickelin , Joe Kileel , Eric J. Verbeke , Nicholas F. Marshall , Marc Aurèle Gilles , Amit Singer

Motivation: Assessing the match between two biomolecular structures is at the heart of structural analyses such as superposition, alignment and docking. These tasks are typically solved with specialized structure-matching techniques…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-23 Michael Habeck , Andreas Kröpelin , Nima Vakili

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

In recent years, an abundance of new molecular structures have been elucidated using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), largely due to advances in hardware technology and data processing techniques. Owing to these new exciting…

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