Automated target segmentation and real space fast alignment methods for high-throughput classification and averaging of crowded cryo-electron subtomograms

Bioinformatics

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Min ^a   Alber, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FREEZING; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; RIBOSOME; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; PROCEDURES;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; FREEZING; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; RIBOSOMES;

MACROMOLECULE;

EID: 84879892611     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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