Fast maximum-likelihood refinement of electron microscopy images
Centro Nacional de BiotecnologíaCSIC, Campus Universidad Autónoma 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Motivation: Maximum-likelihood (ML) image refinement is a promising candidate to improve attainable resolution limits in 3D-EM. However, its large CPU requirements may prohibit application to 3D-structure optimization.
Results: We speeded up ML image refinement by reducing its search space over the alignment parameters. Application of this reduced-search approach to a cryo-EM dataset yielded practically identical results as the original approach, but in approximately one day instead of one week of CPU.
Availability: This work has been implemented in the public domain package Xmipp. Documentation and download instructions may be found at: http://www.cnb.uam.es/~bioinfo
Contact: carazo{at}cnb.uam.es