General Guides

CCP-EM mailing list

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CCP-EM material

See separate pages on presentations, training courses and tutorials.

Green computing

Green Algorithms is an useful website which estimates the carbon footprint based on runtime, number of GPU & CPUs, memory and location. It also provides guidance on how to minimise carbon usage.

MRC/CCP4 file format

We have agreed an update to the MRC/CCP4 format, called MRC2014. Details of the changes have been published in Cheng et al. (2015) “MRC2014: Extensions to the MRC format header for electron cryo-microscopy and tomography” J. Struct. Biol. 192, 146-150. See separate page for further details.

Linux help

A quick guide to basic Linux commands. Also a slightly longer guide to Linux and vi.

Useful links

Online services

EMDB: Electron Microscopy Data Bank

EMPIAR: pilot image archive for EM

3dem mailing list

Royal Microscopical Society

BioImaging UK

General guides

A Primer to Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Cheng et al. (2015)

Detailed review of cryoEM, from Elena Orlova and Helen Saibil

LMB course on EM covering the theoretical basis of modern cryoEM structure determination.

Caltech EM course from Grant Jensen

Detailed guides


Point group symmetries, from Marin van Heel

Euler angle conventions. Some background notes together with links to program-specific documentation.