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Emicomat


Description

EMICOMAT applies the icosahedral symmetry and samples the Fourier transforms in cylindrical coordinates, generating the equations F = B G The command procedures also show the use of mrc2vol to convert a map to AVS usable format. This program converts the icosahedrally symmetrized data for each particle into the cylindrical system used for the reconstruction. The best hand for each particle should be obtained by comparing the two orientations evaluated by SIMPLEX. The program produces a master file EMICOMAT.DAT containing the description of the particle orientations and a sampled data file (.mat) for each particle.

The resolution in the reconstruction is determined by the number of annulae used in the Fourier Bessel synthesis. The data is sampled as a set of rings. The spacing of the rings is determined by the particle size which is set here and the sampling (NSAMP) used. Typically NSAMP is 2. Specifically for a particle of 122 pixels diameter
with nsamp =2
means that each ring will be spaced at 1/244 pixels

if each pixel is 5A in size this will be 1/1220 A

so for a reconstruction to 50 A resolution one needs to use
1220A/50A = 24 annulae

for 20 A need 61annulae

The limit which can be reached depends on the amount and distribution of data available and can be seen from the Inputs

  • >THETA, PHI, OMEGA,ANG_PER_PIXEL (4f)

    Orientation of the particle. There are two possible orientations of the particle which correspond to the flipped and normal orientations in SIMPLEX. The better of the two can be chosen from the error matrix. The difference between the flipped and unflipped orientations is acheived by adding 180 degrees. The values of THETA, PHI and OMEGA will be returned to the icosahedral asymmetric unit if they are outside it a message is written to inform the user. The default value for ANG_PER_PIXEL is taken from that for previous images in the set. If this is the first image the default value is 8.036 A/pix.

  • > Scaling of amplitudes (i)

    Sample runs


    com file for complete reconstruction
    corresponding log file
    annotated com file

    Update History

    Current version - 26jul95
    -sdf 26jul95
    version which includes the ctf correction made the current version

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    Last Updated: 8 July, 1997