2016Wang DeepPicker
Citation
Wang, F., Gong, H., Liu, G., Li, M., Yan, C., Xia, T., ... & Zeng, J. (2016). DeepPicker: A deep learning approach for fully automated particle picking in cryo-EM. Journal of structural biology, 195(3), 325-336.
Abstract
Particle picking is a time-consuming step in single-particle analysis and often requires significant interventions from users, which has become a bottleneck for future automated electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM). Here we report a deep learning framework, called DeepPicker, to address this problem and fill the current gaps toward a fully automated cryo-EM pipeline. DeepPicker employs a novel cross-molecule training strategy to capture common features of particles from previously-analyzed micrographs, and thus does not require any human intervention during particle picking. Tests on the recently-published cryo-EM data of three complexes have demonstrated that our deep learning based scheme can successfully accomplish the human-level particle picking process and identify a sufficient number of particles that are comparable to those picked manually by human experts. These results indicate that DeepPicker can provide a practically useful tool to significantly reduce the time and manual effort spent in single-particle analysis and thus greatly facilitate high-resolution cryo-EM structure determination. DeepPicker is released as an open-source program, which can be downloaded from https://github.com/nejyeah/DeepPicker-python.
Keywords
Cryo-EMParticle pickingAutomationDeep learning
Links
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1047847716301472
Related software
https://github.com/nejyeah/DeepPicker-python