Appion

h1. Install EM Hole Finder

The "EM Hole Finder" package is used for the Auto-masking feature of Appion. It automatically detects carbon edges in micrographs and creates masks for the images to hide the carbon portions. These masks can then be used to exclude particles in those regions from particle stacks.   

h2. Download em_hole_finder package

The package is available at

https://github.com/hbradlow/em_hole_finder

h2. Installation Instructions for CentOS 6

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yum install git python-virtualenv -y

easy_install pip

cd /opt

git clone https://github.com/hbradlow/em_hole_finder

cd em_hole_finder

virtualenv env

source env/bin/activate

pip install numpy

pip install Cython

pip install PIL

pip install scipy

pip install scikit-image

pip install ipython

pip install wsgiref

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h2. Set up a separate environment to run em_hole_finder

em_hole_finder uses a version of numpy which is not compatible with the rest of Appion. 

When the em_hole_finder program is called from Appion, it must first run an activation script to set up an appropriate environment for running em_hole_finder.

h2. Set environment variables

To call em_hole_finder from Appion, the installed package directory (em_hole_finder) needs to be in the user's PATH variable.

Also, you need to set an environment variable "HOLE_FIND_ACTIVATE" to the path to the activate script. An example of the path is "/opt/em_hole_finder/env/bin" where a script called activate is located in the bin directory.

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