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Revision 14 (Bridget Carragher, 07/21/2010 12:43 PM) → Revision 15/31 (Eric Hou, 07/23/2010 11:32 AM)

h1. Public Data Sets: Sets 

 h1. Annotated Dataset I of Images of GroEL I 

 Particles  

 h2. 1. Images. Imaging Conditions 

 Images were acquired with Using a FEI Tecnai F20 equipped with a 2Kx2K CCD Tietz camera, as defocal images are acquired in defocus pairs at a nominal magnification of 62,000 x and a voltage of 120 KeV, using the Leginon system (Potter (Carragher et al., 1999; Carragher et al., 2000). The first image (named *.001.mrc) is acquired at very near to focus (NTF) conditions (-0.6 to -1.5 µm) and the second image one (named *.002.mrc) at farther from focus (FFF) conditions (-3µm). (-2 µm). The time interval between the two exposures is approximately 20s due to the time required to read out the digital image from the camera. The pixel size is 2.238 Å at the specimen scale scale, and the accumulated dose for each high magnification NTF image area was ~10 about 10 e/Ų.  

 Below is Figure 1 shows an example pair of a defocus pair. images. Click on the images them to see at the pictures in full scale. size. 

 p=. (a) !fig1a_full.jpg!:http://emg.nysbc.org/prtl_data/groel_10k/fig1a_full.jpg           (b) !fig1b_full.jpg!:http://emg.nysbc.org/prtl_data/groel_10k/fig1b_full.jpg 
 (a) Near to focus (NTF) image. (b) Far from focus - FFF image.  

 p=. *Figure 1: An example pair of high magnification images of GroEL.* 

 *Downloading There are at least two major advantages of using a defocus pair of images. First, by combining the two images in the defocus pair, relatively high contrast at both low and high spatial frequencies can be attained. Second, the moderately strong low-resolution signals in the FFF images make it possible for us to develop algorithms to identify particles automatically.  

 h2. 2. Downloading High Magnification Images:* Images 

 Image files are provided in "MRC":http://emg.nysbc.org/prtl_data/mrc_specification.htm format and as format. We also provide a JPEG files 

 Download entire file for each image for your convenience in viewing them. The dataset consists of 384 pairs of high magnification images acquired on October 9, 2003 in a single experiment session. You may use one of the following options to download the set of images high magnification images.  

 Download the whole experiment dataset using our download wizard, called [[Dbemwiz|dbemwiz.jar]]. Here are a tool called [[dbemwiz|Dbemwiz]], few tips for using the wizard to download the whole set of high magnification images: (i) Log in as anonymous.       (ii) From the list of Experiments select "06jul12a", shown in Fig. 2a, which is the experiment identification used in our Leginon database.       (iii)Select "exposures" for Image Type as shown in Figure 2b and use section name "03oct09b". then proceed to downloading.  

 We suggest p=. (a) !wizard_1.jpg!           (b) !wizard_2.jpg! 

 p=. *Figure 2: Screenshots of using the wizard with the above tips to download the whole set of high magnification images.* 

 h2. 3. Coordinates of the Picked Particles in the Images 

 Since the NTF image in a tool called "em2em":http://www.imagescience.de/em2em, defocus pair covers almost the same specimen area as the FFF image, the relative distance between particles within the NTF image should be the same as that in the FFF image. Using phase correlation, we are able to convert MRC files accurately align the NTF image to the FFF image in a defocus pair (Zhu et al., 2001). Therefore particles in the NTF image can be then extracted using the positions of the particles selected in the FFF image shifted according to the results of the alignment. We provide in the following only the positions of particles automatically selected in the FFF images. 

 p=. (a) !fig3a.jpg!:http://emg.nysbc.org/prtl_data/groel_10k/fig1a_full.jpg           (b) !fig3b.jpg!:http://emg.nysbc.org/prtl_data/groel_10k/fig1b_full.jpg 
 (a) The NTF image. (b) The FFF image. 

 p=. *Figure 3: An example pair of images outlined with particles selected by Selexon. Each "+" indicate a detected particle.* 

 As we mentioned in the introduction, particle picking is an open, unresolved problem. Even for biological experts, the final picks may vary from person to person. Besides posting the particles picked by our own program Selexon, we will also post other formats. manual/automated picks upon available. For each set of picked particles, we give a brief description of the criteria for manual picks, or the algorithm for automated picks. Links to more detailed descriptions will be provided when available. 

 h2. 2.1 Automated Picking: p=. *Table 1: Manually or automatically picked particles.* 

 A |*Picker*|*Brief Description of the Algorithm*|*Links to download*| 
 |Selexon|A two-stage approach was applied for automatic selection of GroEL particles. In the first stage, a set of candidate particles were automatically selected for each micrograph using the fast local correlation algorithm (Roseman, 2003) combined with a our own peak searching and thresholding algorithms. In the second stage, the set of candidate particles were filtered with a clutter finder to reject contamination any contaminations (Zhu et al., 2004). The clutter finder starts with edge detection followed by connected component componnet labeling, convex hull computation, and size filtering. Particle coordinates are provide below: 

 "Coordinates filtering.|"List of 16212 side-view":http://emg.nysbc.org/prtl_data/groel_10k/03oct09b.side.0.41.tar and that of "10603 top-view":http://emg.nysbc.org/prtl_data/groel_10k/03oct09b.top.0.39.tar GroEL particles selected in the FFF images. [Need a description of the coordinate file – the link is missing in the pages at the moment] images.| 

 h2. 3. 4. Sample 3D Reconstructed Map 

 A set of 7505 particles were extracted from a set of 141 NTF micrographs whose corresponding FFF micrographs contain the first 7,505 particles of the automatically selected 16216 side-view particles. This particle set was used to create a 3D reconstruction using D7 point-group symmetry and 9 cycles of refinement.  

 "Coordinates":http://emg.nysbc.org/prtl_data/klh/klh_10k/prtl_in_3dmap.tar of 7,505 side-view particles contributing to the map. Reconstructions  

 Table 2: Sample reconstruction using 7,505 side-view particles.  

 |*Three-dimensional Density Map (click on the images to download the map)*|*Description of Reconstruction Procedures*|*Comments*| 
 |!groel_160.jpg!:http://emg.nysbc.org/prtl_data/groel_10k/groel_7k_map.mrc.gz !groel_160_top.jpg!:http://emg.nysbc.org/prtl_data/groel_10k/groel_7k_map.mrc.gz|The reconstruction was produced using EMAN (Ludtke et al, 1999) with a D7 symmetry being imposed. The set of 7,505 side-view particles was subjected to 9 cycles of refinement, using a previous volume as a reference, and a new reconstruction volume was calculated.|The set of 7505 particls were extracted from a set of 141 NTF micrographs whose corresponding FFF micrographs contain the first 7,505 particles of the above 16216 side-view particles.| 

 h2. 5. References  

  # Carragher, B., Kisseberth, N., Kriegman, D., Milligan, R. A., Potter, C. S., Pulokas, J., and Reilein, A. (2000) Leginon: An automated system for acquisition of images from vitreous ice specimens. J. Struct. Biol. 132: 33-45.  
  # Ludtke, S.J., P.R. Baldwin, and W. Chiu. (1999) EMAN: Semiautomated software for high-resolution single-particle reconstructions. J. Struct. Biol. 128: 82-97.  
  # Roseman, A.M. (2003) Particle finding in electron micrographs using a fast local correlation algorithm. Ultramicroscopy 94: 225-236.  
  # Zhu, Y., B. Carragher, D.J. Kriegman, R. Milligan, and C.S. Potter. (2001) Automated identification of filaments in cryo-electron microscopy images. J. Struct. Biol. 135: 302-312.  
  # Zhu, Y., Carragher, B., and Potter, C. S. (2004) Contaminant detection: improving tempalte matching based particle selection for cryo-electron microscopy. In: Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, pp. 1071-1074, April 15-18, 2004, Arlington, VA.