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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

PickET: An unsupervised method for localizing macromolecules in cryo-electron tomograms.

Shreyas Arvindekar, Omkar Golatkar, Shruthi Viswanath

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Shreyas ArvindekarNational Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India 560065.ORCID 0000-0002-9945-8534
Omkar GolatkarNational Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India 560065.ORCID 0009-0004-1925-1480
Shruthi ViswanathNational Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India 560065.ORCID 0000-0002-9061-8407

Funding

XRAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE ANALYSIS: PROTEIN SORTINGP41RR001081 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GODDARD, THOMAS · 1985 to 2011
$17.6M
ChimeraX -- Next Generation Visualization and Analysis Software for Multiscale ModelingR01GM129325 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FERRIN, THOMAS E · 2018 to 2025
$5.2M
NCRR NIH HHS P41 RR001081NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM129325
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Abstract

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) datasets are rich sources of information capable of describing the localizations, structures, and interactions of macromolecules. However, most current methods for localizing particles in cryo-electron tomograms are limited to macromolecules with known structure, require extensive manual annotations, and/or are computationally expensive. Here, we present PickET, a method for localizing macromolecules in tomograms that does not rely on expert annotations and prior structures. Its performance is demonstrated on a diverse dataset comprising over a hundred tomograms from publicly available datasets, varying in sample types, sample preparation conditions, microscope hardware, and image processing workflows. We demonstrate that PickET can simultaneously localize macromolecules of various shapes, sizes, and abundance. The predicted particle localizations can be used for 3D classification and

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Cryo-electron tomographylocalizationmacromolecular assembliesparticle-pickingprotein complexesunsupervised learning

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