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ArticleJournal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology2017

Comparing an Atomic Model or Structure to a Corresponding Cryo-electron Microscopy Image at the Central Axis of a Helix.

Stephanie Zeil, Julio Kovacs, Willy Wriggers, Jing He

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Article in Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. DeepSSETracer 2.0: Improved Deep Learning Model Performance for Protein Secondary Structure Segmentation from Cryo-EM Maps.ACM-BCB ... ... : the ... ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine · 2025
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  5. A Pattern Recognition Tool for Medium-resolution Cryo-EM Density Maps and Low-resolution Cryo-ET Density maps.Bioinformatics research and applications : 14th International Symposium, ISBRA 2018, Beijing, China, June 8-11, 2018, Proceedings. ISBRA (Conference) (14th : 2018 : Beijing, China) · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephanie Zeil1 Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University , Norfolk, Virginia.
Julio Kovacs2 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Old Dominion University , Norfolk, Virginia.
Willy Wriggers2 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Old Dominion University , Norfolk, Virginia.
Jing He1 Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University , Norfolk, Virginia.
Old Dominion University · US

Funding

Multi-Resolution Docking Methods for Electron MicroscopyR01GM062968 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI WRIGGERS, WILLY R · 2001 to 2023
$4.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM062968
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three-dimensional density maps of biological specimens from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can be interpreted in the form of atomic models that are modeled into the density, or they can be compared to known atomic structures. When the central axis of a helix is detectable in a cryo-EM density map, it is possible to quantify the agreement between this central axis and a central axis calculated from the atomic model or structure. We propose a novel arc-length association method to compare the two axes reliably. This method was applied to 79 helices in simulated density maps and six case studies using cryo-EM maps at 6.4-7.7 Å resolution. The arc-length association method is then compared to three existing measures that evaluate the separation of two helical axes: a two-way distance between point sets, the length difference between two axes, and the individual amino acid detection accuracy. The results show that our proposed method sensitively distinguishes lateral and longitudinal discrepancies between the two axes, which makes the method particularly suitable for the systematic investigation of cryo-EM map-model pairs.

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AlgorithmsModels, MolecularAmino Acid MotifsAnimalsCryoelectron MicroscopyHumansProtein Conformation, alpha-HelicalProtein Conformation, beta-StrandProteinsProteinsaxiscryo-electron microscopyfittingheliximageprotein structuresecondary structurespline

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PMID27936925
PMCPMC5220566
OpenAlexW2564974264

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