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ArticleJournal of structural biology2011

Clustering and variance maps for cryo-electron tomography using wedge-masked differences.

John M Heumann, Andreas Hoenger, David N Mastronarde

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Article in Journal of structural biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 150 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

John M HeumannBoulder Laboratory For 3D Electron Microscopy of Cells, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA. john.heumann@colorado.edu
Andreas Hoenger
David N Mastronarde

Funding

WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS USING IMODP41RR000592 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER · PI BASS, PETER W. · 1985 to 2011
$11.9M
NCRR NIH HHS P41 RR000592NCRR NIH HHS P41-RR000592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryo-electron tomography provides 3D imaging of frozen hydrated biological samples with nanometer resolution. Reconstructed volumes suffer from low signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR)(1) and artifacts caused by systematically missing tomographic data. Both problems can be overcome by combining multiple subvolumes with varying orientations, assuming they contain identical structures. Clustering (unsupervised classification) is required to ensure or verify population homogeneity, but this process is complicated by the problems of poor SNR and missing data, the factors that led to consideration of multiple subvolumes in the first place. Here, we describe a new approach to clustering and variance mapping in the face of these difficulties. The combined subvolume is taken as an estimate of the true subvolume, and the effect of missing data is computed for individual subvolumes. Clustering and variance mapping then proceed based on differences between expected and observed subvolumes. We show that this new method is faster and more accurate than two current, widely used techniques.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyElectron Microscope TomographyPrincipal Component Analysis

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PMID21616153
PMCPMC3150390

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