New Computational Tools For Sample Purification And Early Stage Data Processing In High Resolution Cryo Electron Microscopy

Large macromolecular protein complexes play an important role in the quest of un- derstanding life at a molecular level. For this endeavor, the highly-resolved 3D structure of a large complex and its changes, which are called conformational dy- namics, are of high interest due to their close relation to biological function. A pop- ular method to gain access to this information is cryo-electron microscopy. Here, biological samples are vitrified in their native buffer conditions and then im- aged in a transmission electron microscope. The large amount of recorded noisy images, called microgra...