For something different, tried this approach on something on the other end of the spectrum - in situ ribosomes from low SNR 2DTM data.
Used the U2OS-grid 9 dataset from EMPIAR-12459 (699 movies; doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...).
Blob pick & 2D after denoising gave 12k particles. 2-class HR-HAIR --> 3.3 Å
Oli Clarke
This one is a bit of a departure from the usual and definitely a work in progress!
We found that by using ab initio reconstruction at very high res, in very small steps, we could crack some small structures that had eluded us - e.g. 39kDa iPKAc (EMPIAR-10252), below.
Read on for details... 1/x
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Oli Clarke
High-resolution ab initio reconstruction enables cryo-EM structure determination of small particles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674935v1
