Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy: Mathematical theory, computational challenges, and opportunities

T Bendory, A Bartesaghi… - IEEE signal processing …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, an abundance of new molecular structures have been elucidated using cryo-
electron microscopy (cryo-EM), largely due to advances in hardware technology and data …

Methods for cryo-EM single particle reconstruction of macromolecules having continuous heterogeneity

B Toader, FJ Sigworth, RR Lederman - Journal of molecular biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Macromolecules change their shape (conformation) in the process of carrying out their
functions. The imaging by cryo-electron microscopy of rapidly-frozen, individual copies of …

CryoGAN: A new reconstruction paradigm for single-particle cryo-EM via deep adversarial learning

H Gupta, MT McCann, L Donati… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present CryoGAN, a new paradigm for single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-
EM) reconstruction based on unsupervised deep adversarial learning. In single-particle cryo …

The sample complexity of sparse multireference alignment and single-particle cryo-electron microscopy

T Bendory, D Edidin - SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 2024 - SIAM
Multireference alignment (MRA) is the problem of recovering a signal from its multiple noisy
copies, each acted upon by a random group element. MRA is mainly motivated by single …

Dihedral multi-reference alignment

T Bendory, D Edidin, W Leeb… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the dihedral multi-reference alignment problem of estimating the orbit of a signal
from multiple noisy observations of the signal, acted on by random elements of the dihedral …

Toward single particle reconstruction without particle picking: Breaking the detection limit

T Bendory, N Boumal, W Leeb, E Levin… - SIAM journal on imaging …, 2023 - SIAM
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently joined X-ray crystallography
and NMR spectroscopy as a high-resolution structural method to resolve biological …

Likelihood maximization and moment matching in low SNR Gaussian mixture models

A Katsevich, AS Bandeira - Communications on Pure and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We derive an asymptotic expansion for the log‐likelihood of Gaussian mixture models
(GMMs) with equal covariance matrices in the low signal‐to‐noise regime. The expansion …

Wilson statistics: derivation, generalization and applications to electron cryomicroscopy

A Singer - Foundations of Crystallography, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
The power spectrum of proteins at high frequencies is remarkably well described by the flat
Wilson statistics. Wilson statistics therefore plays a significant role in X-ray crystallography …

Heterogeneous multireference alignment for images with application to 2D classification in single particle reconstruction

C Ma, T Bendory, N Boumal… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motivated by the task of 2D classification in single particle reconstruction by cryo-electron
microscopy (cryo-EM), we consider the problem of heterogeneous multireference alignment …

Blind phaseless short-time Fourier transform recovery

T Bendory, D Edidin, YC Eldar - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of recovering a pair of signals from their blind phaseless short-time Fourier
transform measurements arises in several important phase retrieval applications, including …