Alignator: A GPU powered software package for robust fiducial-less alignment of cryo tilt-series

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 117-126

  Castaño Díez, Daniel ^a   Scheffer, Margot ^a   Al Amoudi, Ashraf ^a   Frangakis, Achilleas S ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryo electron tomography; Fiducial less alignment; Image alignment; Image processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77950518374     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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