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TEM Data Analysis Tools

AreTomo

Description

(Alignment and Reconstruction for Electron Tomography) GPU-accelerated software package that provides an integrated solution to both fiducial-free alignment and reconstruction for cryoEM tomography.

URL

https://msg.ucsf.edu/software

ModulePaths for AreTomo
apps/aretomo/1.3.4/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/aretomo2/1.1.2/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/aretomo2/1.1.2/gpu/cuda-12.6
apps/aretomo3/2.0.3/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/aretomo3/2.0.3/gpu/cuda-12.6    

CisTEM

Description

GUI-based software to process cryo-EM images of macromolecular complexes and obtain high-resolution 3D reconstructions. It provides a number of tools to process image data including movies, micrographs and stacks of single-particle images, implementing a complete “pipeline” of processing steps to obtain high-resolution single-particle reconstructions

URL

https://cistem.org

ModulePaths for cisTEM
apps/cistem/1.0.0/cpu/gcc-11.5.0

CrYOLO

Description

An application for fast and accurate cryo-EM particle picking. It’s based on convolutional neural networks and utilizes the popular You Only Look Once (YOLO) object detection system.

URL

https://cryolo.readthedocs.io

ModulePaths for cryolo
apps/cryolo/1.9.9/gpu/cuda-11.x

CryoSPARC

Description

A state of the art scientific software platform for cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) used in research and drug discovery pipelines.

URL

https://cryosparc.com

Remarks on CryoSPARC

Running CryoSPARC instance is provided per each Research Group basis on their scratch directory (/tem/scratch/GroupDir/.cryosparc). For more details, please refer to CryoSPARC

CTFFind4

Description

A new version of ctffind (a program for finding CTFs of electron micrographs) that should run significantly faster than CTFFind3 and may give slightly improved results when processing data from detectors other than scanned photographic film.

URL

https://grigoriefflab.umassmed.edu/ctffind4

ModulePaths for CTFFind4
apps/ctffind/4.1.14/cpu/gcc-11.5.0
apps/ctffind/4.1.14/cpu/intel-compiler-2024.0.2

Dynamo

TBD

EMRNA

Description

A tool that performs Deep learning based automated RNA modeling from cryo-EM maps.

URL

http://huanglab.phys.hust.edu.cn/EMRNA

ModulePaths for EMRNA
apps/emrna/1.5/gpu/cuda-11.1

EternaFold

Description

A tool that performs multitask learning to improve RNA structure prediction. Its training tasks include 1) predicting single structures, 2) maximizing the likelihood of structure probing data, and 3) predicting experimentally-measured affinities of RNA molecules to proteins and small molecules.

URL

https://github.com/eternagame/EternaFold

ModulePaths for EternaFold
apps/eternafold/1.3.1/cpu/gcc-11.5.0

GCtfFind

Description

GCtfFind is a new application that robustly estimates the contrast transfer function (CTF) of cryoET tilt series and cryoEM micrographs, essential information needed for cryoET subtomogram averaging and cryoEM single-particle reconstruction.

URL

https://github.com/czimaginginstitute/GCtfFind

ModulePaths for GCtfFind
apps/gctffind/1.0.0/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/gctffind/1.0.0/gpu/cuda-12.6

IMOD

Description

IMOD is a set of image processing, modeling and display programs used for tomographic reconstruction and for 3D reconstruction of EM serial sections and optical sections. The package contains tools for assembling and aligning data within multiple types and sizes of image stacks, viewing 3-D data from any orientation, and modeling and display of the image files.

URL

https://bio3d.colorado.edu/imod

ModulePaths for IMOD
apps/imod/5.1.1/gpu/cuda-12.6

IsoNet

Description

(ISOtropic reconstructioN of Electron Tomography) A tool that trains deep convolutional neural networks to reconstruct meaningful contents in the missing wedge for electron tomography, and to increase signal-to-noise ratio, using the information learned from the original tomogram.

URL

https://github.com/IsoNet-cryoET/IsoNet

ModulePaths for IsoNet
apps/isonet/0.2.1/gpu/cuda-12.5
apps/isonet/0.3.0/gpu/cuda-12.5

MotionCor

Description

A multi-GPU program that corrects beam-induced sample motion on dose fractionated movie stacks. It implements a robust iterative alignment algorithm that delivers precise measurement and correction of both global and non-uniform local motions at single pixel level across the whole frame, suitable for both single-particle and tomographic images.

URL

ModulePaths for MotionCor
apps/motioncor2/1.6.4/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/motioncor3/1.1.1/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/motioncor3/1.1.1/gpu/cuda-12.6

PyEM

Description

A collection of Python modules and command-line utilities for electron microscopy of biological samples.

URL

https://github.com/asarnow/pyem

ModulePaths for PyEM
apps/pyem/0.65

PyTOM

Description

PyTom is a software package for the analysis of volumetric data obtained by cryo electron tomography (cryo-ET). It covers a complete pipeline of processing steps for tomogram reconstruction, localization of macromolecular complexes in tomograms, fine alignment of subtomograms extracted at these locations, and their classification.

URL

ModulePaths for PyTom
apps/pytom/1.1/gpu/cuda-12.x

Relion

Description

Relion (for REgularised LIkelihood OptimisatioN, pronounce rely-on) is a software package that employs an empirical Bayesian approach for electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) structure determination. It is developed in the group of Sjors Scheres at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

URL

ModulePaths for Relion
apps/relion/4.0.1/cpu/gcc-11.5.0
apps/relion/4.0.1/cpu/intel-compiler-2024.0.2
apps/relion/4.0.1/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/relion/4.0.1/gpu/cuda-12.6

apps/relion/5.0.0/cpu/gcc-11.5.0
apps/relion/5.0.0/cpu/intel-compiler-2024.0.2
apps/relion/5.0.0/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/relion/5.0.0/gpu/cuda-12.6

ResMap

Description

(Resolution Map) a Python (NumPy/SciPy) application with a Tkinter GUI. It is an easy to use software package for computing the local resolution of 3D density maps studied in structural biology, primarily electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM). ResMap has a both a GUI (window) and a command line interface.

URL

https://resmap.sourceforge.net

ModulePaths for ResMap
apps/resmap/1.1.4

SumMovie

Description

A tool that uses the alignment results from the software application Unblur to calculate movie frame sums.

URL

https://grigoriefflab.umassmed.edu/unblur_summovie

ModulePaths for SumMovie
apps/summovie/1.0.2

Topaz

Description

A pipeline for particle detection in cryo-electron microscopy images using convolutional neural networks trained from positive and unlabeled examples. Topaz includes methods for micrograph denoising using deep denoising models.

URL

https://github.com/tbepler/topaz

ModulePaths for Topaz
apps/topaz/0.2.5/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/topaz/0.2.5/gpu/cuda-12.4

apps/topaz/0.3.1/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/topaz/0.3.1/gpu/cuda-12.4

Topaz for CryoSPARC

Description

A pipeline for particle detection in cryo-electron microscopy images using convolutional neural networks trained from positive and unlabeled examples. Topaz includes methods for micrograph denoising using deep denoising models. This module is based on python runtime 3.6.

URL

https://guide.cryosparc.com/processing-data/all-job-types-in-cryosparc/deep-picking/topaz

ModulePaths for Topaz (for CryoSPARC)
apps/topaz/0.2.5a/gpu/cuda-11.3

Topaz for Picking Filaments

Description

A program with added support for filament start-end coordinate picking (new options -f, -fp and -fl in the extract command extract.py) in Topaz, for subsequent helical reconstruction in RELION.

URL

https://github.com/3dem/topaz

ModulePaths for Topaz filaments picking
apps/topaz/0.2.5_filaments/gpu/cuda-11.8
apps/topaz/0.2.5_filaments/gpu/cuda-12.4

Unblur

Description

A tool used to align the frames of movies recorded on an electron microscope to reduce image blurring due to beam-induced motion. It reads stacks of movies that are stored in MRC/CCP4 format and generates frame sums that can be used in subsequent image processing.

URL

https://grigoriefflab.umassmed.edu/unblur_summovie

ModulePaths for Unblur
apps/unblur/1.0.2