Leginon: a system for fully automated acquisition of 1000 electron micrographs a day

被引:117
作者
Potter, CS
Chu, H
Frey, B
Green, C
Kisseberth, N
Madden, TJ
Miller, KL
Nahrstedt, K
Pulokas, J
Reilein, A
Tcheng, D
Weber, D
Carragher, B
机构
[1] Univ Illinois, Beckman Inst Adv Sci & Technol, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[2] Univ Illinois, Dept Comp Sci, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[3] Natl Ctr Supercomp Applicat, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
microscopic methods; instrument control; automated data acquisition; three-dimensional electron microscopy;
D O I
10.1016/S0304-3991(99)00043-1
中图分类号
TH742 [显微镜];
学科分类号
摘要
We have developed a system to automatically acquire large numbers of acceptable quality images from specimens of negatively stained catalase, a biological protein which forms crystals. In this paper we will describe the details of the system architecture and analyze the performance of the system as compared to a human operator. The ultimate goal of the system if to automate the process of acquiring cryo-electron micrographs, (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:153 / 161
页数:9
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