Summary of Mixture Of Neural Fields For Heterogeneous Reconstruction in Cryo-em, by Axel Levy and Rishwanth Raghu and David Shustin and Adele Rui-yang Peng and Huan Li and Oliver Biggs Clarke and Gordon Wetzstein and Ellen D. Zhong
Mixture of neural fields for heterogeneous reconstruction in cryo-EM
by Axel Levy, Rishwanth Raghu, David Shustin, Adele Rui-Yang Peng, Huan Li, Oliver Biggs Clarke, Gordon Wetzstein, Ellen D. Zhong
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces Hydra, a novel approach for reconstructing macromolecular structures from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data. Unlike current methods, Hydra can model both conformational and compositional heterogeneity in protein mixtures. The technique employs neural fields to parameterize structures and uses a likelihood-based loss function to optimize the reconstruction process. The authors demonstrate Hydra’s effectiveness on synthetic datasets and an experimental dataset of cellular lysate containing various protein complexes. This work expands the capabilities of heterogeneous reconstruction methods, enabling the analysis of increasingly complex biological samples. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper develops a new way to study proteins using a technique called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Currently, this method can only analyze single types of proteins. The scientists introduce a new approach called Hydra that can handle mixtures of different protein types with various shapes and structures. They test their method on fake data and real data from cellular samples. This breakthrough enables researchers to study more complex biological systems. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Likelihood » Loss function
