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ArticleJournal of structural biology2018

Exploring applications of crowdsourcing to cryo-EM.

Jacob Bruggemann, Gabriel C Lander, Andrew I Su

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Article in Journal of structural biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Scientific Discovery Games for Biomedical Research.Annual review of biomedical data science · 2019
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  6. The crowd storms the ivory tower.Nature methods · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jacob BruggemannIntegrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA. Electronic address: jbrugg@scripps.edu.
Gabriel C LanderIntegrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA. Electronic address: glander@scripps.edu.
Andrew I SuIntegrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA. Electronic address: asu@scripps.edu.
Scripps Research Institute · US

Funding

TRAININGU54GM114833 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI LINDSEY, MERRY L., PING, PEIPEI · 2014 to 2017
$13.8M
Molecular basis of axonal transport described by high-resolution 3D imagingDP2EB020402 · NIBIB · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI LANDER, GABRIEL C · 2014 to 2014
$2.8M
NIBIB NIH HHS DP2 EB020402NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM114833
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extraction of particles from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) micrographs is a crucial step in processing single-particle datasets. Although algorithms have been developed for automatic particle picking, these algorithms generally rely on two-dimensional templates for particle identification, which may exhibit biases that can propagate artifacts through the reconstruction pipeline. Manual picking is viewed as a gold-standard solution for particle selection, but it is too time-consuming to perform on data sets of thousands of images. In recent years, crowdsourcing has proven effective at leveraging the open web to manually curate datasets. In particular, citizen science projects such as Galaxy Zoo have shown the power of appealing to users' scientific interests to process enormous amounts of data. To this end, we explored the possible applications of crowdsourcing in cryo-EM particle picking, presenting a variety of novel experiments including the production of a fully annotated particle set from untrained citizen scientists. We show the possibilities and limitations of crowdsourcing particle selection tasks, and explore further options for crowdsourcing cryo-EM data processing.

Indexed as

CrowdsourcingCryoelectron MicroscopyData AnalysisDatasets as TopicImage Processing, Computer-AssistedComputationCrowdsourcingCryo-EMData processingSingle-particle analysisStructural biology

Identifiers

PMID29486249
PMCPMC6086358
OpenAlexW2950132387

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