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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2023

Deep learning for reconstructing protein structures from cryo-EM density maps: Recent advances and future directions.

Nabin Giri, Raj S Roy, Jianlin Cheng

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. A Chromatin Biology Assessment of AlphaFold3.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  8. BioEmu: AI-Powered Revolution in Scalable Protein Dynamics Simulation.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2025
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  12. Recognizing amino acid sidechains in a medium-resolution cryo-electron density map.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025
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  15. The physics-AI dialogue in drug design.RSC medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  16. A Labeled Dataset for AI-based Cryo-EM Map Enhancement.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  18. A labeled dataset for AI-based cryo-EM map enhancement.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nabin GiriDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211, Missouri, USA; NextGen Precision Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211, Missouri, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/@nvngiri.
Raj S RoyDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211, Missouri, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/@rajshekhorroy.
Jianlin ChengDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211, Missouri, USA; NextGen Precision Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211, Missouri, USA. Electronic address: chengji@missouri.edu.

Funding

Integrated Prediction of Protein Struture at 1D, 2D and 3D LevelsR01GM093123 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI CHENG, JIANLIN · 2010 to 2023
$3.8M
Deep learning methods for automated and accurate reconstruction of protein structures from cryo-EM image dataR01GM146340 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI CHENG, JIANLIN · 2022 to 2025
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093123NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM146340
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a key technology to determine the structure of proteins, particularly large protein complexes and assemblies in recent years. A key challenge in cryo-EM data analysis is to automatically reconstruct accurate protein structures from cryo-EM density maps. In this review, we briefly overview various deep learning methods for building protein structures from cryo-EM density maps, analyze their impact, and discuss the challenges of preparing high-quality data sets for training deep learning models. Looking into the future, more advanced deep learning models of effectively integrating cryo-EM data with other sources of complementary data such as protein sequences and AlphaFold-predicted structures need to be developed to further advance the field.

Indexed as

Deep LearningAmino Acid SequenceCryoelectron MicroscopyModels, MolecularProtein ConformationProteinsProteins

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PMID36773336
PMCPMC10023387

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