Cryo-Electron Tomography and Subtomogram Averaging

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 579, Issue , 2016, Pages 329-367

  Wan, W ^a   Briggs, J A G ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryo electron microscopy; Cryo electron tomography; Image processing; In situ structural biology; Subtomogram averaging

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TRANSFER FUNCTION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SOFTWARE; SUBTOMOGRAM AVERAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WORKFLOW; ALGORITHM; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DEVICES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHMS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEINS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOFTWARE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84994829249     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2016.04.014     Document Type: Chapter

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