Dynamics in cryo EM reconstructions visualized with maximum-likelihood derived variance maps

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-206

  Wang, Qiu ^a   Matsui, Tsutomu ^b   Domitrovic, Tatiana ^c   Zheng, Yili ^d   Doerschuk, Peter C ^e   Johnson, John E ^c  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryo electron microscopy; Expectation maximization algorithm; Heterogeneous particles; Maximum likelihood estimation; Nudaurelia Capensis Omega Virus; Protein folding; Quasi equivalence; Single particle reconstruction; Time resolved; Variance map; Virus maturation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DENSITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS;

NUDAURELIA CAPENSIS OMEGA VIRUS;

EID: 84873993676     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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