Automation in Single-Particle Electron Microscopy. Connecting the Pieces

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 483, Issue C, 2010, Pages 291-338

  Lyumkis, Dmitry ^a   Moeller, Arne ^a   Cheng, Anchi ^a   Herold, Amber ^a   Hou, Eric ^a   Irving, Christopher ^a   Jacovetty, Erica L ^a   Lau, Pick Wei ^a   Mulder, Anke M ^a   Pulokas, James ^a   Quispe, Joel D ^a   Voss, Neil R ^a   Potter, Clinton S ^a   Carragher, Bridget ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BOOK; CALIBRATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ISOLATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; ROBOTICS; SCREENING; SKILL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 77957264753     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(10)83015-0     Document Type: Chapter

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