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ArticleeLife2020

DeepFRET, a software for rapid and automated single-molecule FRET data classification using deep learning.

Johannes Thomsen, Magnus Berg Sletfjerding, Simon Bo Jensen, Stefano Stella, Bijoya Paul, Mette Galsgaard Malle, Guillermo Montoya, Troels Christian Petersen, Nikos S Hatzakis

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Johannes ThomsenDepartment of Chemistry and Nanoscience Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-0148-9114
Magnus Berg SletfjerdingDepartment of Chemistry and Nanoscience Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-8669-4039
Simon Bo JensenDepartment of Chemistry and Nanoscience Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-8946-3831
Stefano StellaStructural Molecular Biology Group, Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-9078-4659
Bijoya PaulStructural Molecular Biology Group, Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mette Galsgaard MalleDepartment of Chemistry and Nanoscience Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-3722-502X
Guillermo MontoyaStructural Molecular Biology Group, Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Troels Christian PetersenNiels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Nikos S HatzakisDepartment of Chemistry and Nanoscience Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-4202-0328
University of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

Carlsbergfondet CF16-0797Novo Nordisk NNF0024386Novo Nordisk NNF14CC0001Novo Nordisk NNF17SA0030214Novo Nordisk NNF18OC0055061Velux Fonden 10099Velux Fonden 18333
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-molecule Förster Resonance energy transfer (smFRET) is an adaptable method for studying the structure and dynamics of biomolecules. The development of high throughput methodologies and the growth of commercial instrumentation have outpaced the development of rapid, standardized, and automated methodologies to objectively analyze the wealth of produced data. Here we present DeepFRET, an automated, open-source standalone solution based on deep learning, where the only crucial human intervention in transiting from raw microscope images to histograms of biomolecule behavior, is a user-adjustable quality threshold. Integrating standard features of smFRET analysis, DeepFRET consequently outputs the common kinetic information metrics. Its classification accuracy on ground truth data reached >95% outperforming human operators and commonly used threshold, only requiring ~1% of the time. Its precise and rapid operation on real data demonstrates DeepFRET's capacity to objectively quantify biomolecular dynamics and the potential to contribute to benchmarking smFRET for dynamic structural biology.

Indexed as

Deep LearningSoftwareAlgorithmsFalse Positive ReactionsFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferFluorescent DyesKineticsMarkov ChainsMolecular Dynamics SimulationNanotechnologyNormal DistributionReproducibility of ResultsSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedSingle Molecule ImagingUser-Computer InterfaceFluorescent Dyesbiophysicsdeep learningFRETmicroscopymolecular biophysicsnonesingle moleculestructural biology

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PMID33138911
PMCPMC7609065
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