Statistics and classification of spatial rotations and projection directions considering molecular symmetry in 3D electron cryo-microscopy

Published: Aug. 24, 2020, 12:01 a.m.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.24.264952v1?rss=1 Authors: Hu, M., Zhang, Q., Lin, H. Abstract: Electron cryo-microscopy (cryoEM) three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction is based on estimations of orientations of projection images or 3D volumes. It is common that the macromolecules studied by cryoEM have molecular symmetry. However, for neither spatial rotations nor projection directions, cur- rently there is no statistics and classification method which takes molecular symmetry into consideration. This limits the applications of advanced statistical methods in cryoEM. In this research, based on the concept of non-unique-games (NUG), we propose statistics and classification methods of both spatial rotations and projection directions when molecular symmetry is considered. Such methods are realized in the open-source python package pySymStat. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info