An image processing pipeline for electron cryo‐tomography in RELION‐5

Autor: Alister Burt, Bogdan Toader, Rangana Warshamanage, Andriko vonKügelgen, Euan Pyle, Jasenko Zivanov, Dari Kimanius, Tanmay A. M. Bharat, Sjors H. W. Scheres
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: FEBS Open Bio, Vol 14, Iss 11, Pp 1788-1804 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2211-5463
DOI: 10.1002/2211-5463.13873
Popis: Electron tomography of frozen, hydrated samples allows structure determination of macromolecular complexes that are embedded in complex environments. Provided that the target complexes may be localised in noisy, three‐dimensional tomographic reconstructions, averaging images of multiple instances of these molecules can lead to structures with sufficient resolution for de novo atomic modelling. Although many research groups have contributed image processing tools for these tasks, a lack of standardisation and interoperability represents a barrier for newcomers to the field. Here, we present an image processing pipeline for electron tomography data in RELION‐5, with functionality ranging from the import of unprocessed movies to the automated building of atomic models in the final maps. Our explicit definition of metadata items that describe the steps of our pipeline has been designed for interoperability with other software tools and provides a framework for further standardisation.
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