Fold’EM infers atomic structures directly from cryo-EM particle images

The framework combines protein-model priors with sparse, noisy particle measurements, bypassing three-dimensional density reconstruction and subsequent model fitting.

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Advaith Maddipatla · Märt-Erik Mäeots · Marco Pegoraro · Nikolaus Dräger · Roberto Covino · Sanketh Vedula · +2 more

Institute of Science and Technology Austria · University of Zurich · Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies · Princeton University · Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

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Maddipatla et al.

Fold’EM treats structure determination as joint inference over an atomic protein model and particle-specific latent variables, including viewing orientation and conformational assignment.

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Fold'EM infers atomic structures directly from cryo-EM particle images by combining protein structure priors with particle evidence, bypassing density reconstruction.

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