Quantifying the local resolution of cryo-EM density maps.

Kucukelbir, Alp; Sigworth, Fred J; Tagare, Hemant D · Nat Methods · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We propose a definition of local resolution for three-dimensional electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) density maps that uses local sinusoidal features. Our algorithm has no free parameters and is applicable to other imaging modalities, including tomography. By evaluating the local resolution of single-particle reconstructions and subtomogram averages for four example data sets, we report variable resolution across a 4- to 40-Å range.

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