Scipion: A software framework toward integration, reproducibility and validation in 3D electron microscopy

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 93-99

  de la Rosa Trevin J M ^a,b   Quintana, A ^c   del Cano, L ^a   Zaldivar A ^a   Foche, I ^d   Gutierrez J ^a   Gomez Blanco J ^a   Burguet Castell, J ^a   Cuenca Alba, J ^a   Abrishami, V ^a   Vargas, J ^a   Oton J ^a   Sharov, G ^e   Vilas, J L ^a   Navas, J ^a   Conesa, P ^a   Kazemi, M ^a   Marabini, R ^b   Sorzano, C O S ^a,f   Carazo, J M ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d EyeSeeTea Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^f UNIVERSIDAD SAN PABLO CEU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Image processing; Reproducibility; Single particle analysis; Software package; Workflows

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SOFTWARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; STANDARDIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDATION STUDY; WORKFLOW; ALGORITHM; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84964290813     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2016.04.010     Document Type: Article

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