Supported Applications

Description

(SParx for HIgh Resolution Electron microscopy) a tool for cryoEM using statistical resampling to attain quality assessment and result reproducibility. Includes movie frame alignments (movie), CTF estimation of raw electron micrographs (cter), picking/stack creation (window), reproducible 2-D classification (isac), reproducible initial model generation (viper), automatic gold-standard 3-D refinement (meridien), local resolution estimation and filtering (localres), and up to the 3-D sorting of different conformational states based on the statistical 3-D variability of the data (sort3D).

Usage

Usage Notes

Running GPU-accelerated ISAC2 (linux-only):

sxisac2_gpu.py requires use of mpirun from eman2 (mpirun.eman2) and explicit specification of the GPU IDs. For example: mpirun.eman2 -n 4 sp_isac2_gpu.py bdb:isac_dummy_data_64#faces dummy_test5 --radius=32 --img_per_grp=8 --gpu_devices=0,1 specifies 2 GPU cards with IDs 0 and 1.

This is example uses the data described in the ISAC tutorial found here: https://sphire.mpg.de/wiki/doku.php?id=gpu_isac

Due to BDB depreciation, EMAN2 2.91 or 2.07 should be used with SPHIRE.

Installation

Primary Citation*

T. Moriya, M. Saur, M. Stabrin, F. Merino, H. Voicu, Z. Huang, P. A. Penczek, S. Raunser, and C. Gatsogiannis. 2017. High-resolution Single Particle Analysis from Electron Cryo-microscopy Images Using SPHIRE. Journal of Visualized Experiments.

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Tales

Particle catcher

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Webinars

Topic: SPHIRE: User-friendly pipeline for near-atomic resolution Cryo-EM structure determination with automatic validation mechanisms.
Speaker: Toshio Moriya, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology

Host: Jason Key
Recorded on: October 10, 2017