Low cost, high performance processing of single particle cryo-electron microscopy data in the cloud

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Cianfrocco, Michael A ^a,b   Leschziner, Andres E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST; CRYO ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ECONOMICS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROCEDURES; RIBOSOME; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YEAST;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DATABASES, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RIBOSOMES; SOFTWARE; YEASTS;

EID: 84930661954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.06664     Document Type: Article

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