focused refinement with signal subtraction

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Madeline Rollins

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Mar 18, 2025, 2:08:16 PMMar 18
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Hi,

Is it possible to do focused refinement without including the density for other subunits for the subtomogram averaging pipeline in EMAN2?

 

I found this documentation that describes two approaches for looking at a single subunit at a time for symmetric particles:

https://blake.bcm.edu/emanwiki/EMAN2/TomoSymmetry

 

One of the approaches is to re-extract the particles centered on a subunit, where you have reduced the box size and provide the appropriate 3D translation.


Is there a simple way to do something like this without re-extracting particles for something that has no symmetry (C1)? For example, would using --maskalign in the e2spt_refine_new command be sufficient?

All the best,


Madeline

Muyuan Chen

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Mar 18, 2025, 2:41:12 PMMar 18
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Yes. It works as long as the subunit you focus on is not too small. One example here. 

Compared to the guide in the tomosymmetry link, one difference here is we start the refinement with "e2spt_gathermeta.py". This uses the subtilt alignment information from the full particle refinement, which helps  sometimes if you want to reach higher resolution.

Muyuan

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Madeline Rollins

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Mar 18, 2025, 5:25:32 PMMar 18
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Thanks, I will try this now. If I wanted to "unsubtract" the other densities to have an unmasked, locally filtered map, could I just add the threed_even/odd_unmasked.hdf files? Or do I need to copy the threed_raw_even/odd.hdf and then run e2refine_postprocess?

Madeline

Muyuan Chen

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Mar 18, 2025, 5:27:25 PMMar 18
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It may be better to run e2refine_postprocess so you get the filtering properly, but in principle, just adding the even/odd_unmasked file shouldn't hurt. 

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