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== Citation ==

M. Schreiber, B. Turoňová, TANGO: Analysis and curation of particles in cryo-electron tomography. Nat Commun 17, 1557 (2026).

== Abstract ==

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables the visualization of cellular structures in near-native environments, but its potential for spatial analysis has been underutilized due to a lack of versatile tools accommodating biological sample diversity. Available solutions often rely on case-specific or hypothesis-driven approaches, while holistic analyses remain challenging. In this work, we introduce TANGO (Twist-Aware Neighborhoods for Geometric Organization), a framework leveraging point cloud descriptors to analyze spatial arrangements of particles, such as macromolecular complexes, in cryo-ET. By encoding relative positions and orientations of particles as twist vectors, TANGO enables rotationally invariant feature extraction, including structured neighborhood occupancy, lattice topology, or angular deviations. Its modular design and user-friendly interface allow for customization of features, facilitating exploratory analyses of spatial patterns in diverse experimental datasets. With its open-source Python implementation, TANGO advances the ability to decode complex cellular architectures and their functional relationships, offering a particle data analysis tool for the cryo-ET community.

== Keywords ==
Cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET), Particle analysis, Data curation, Subtomogram averaging

== Links ==
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-69195-5

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