Lateral lipid heterogeneity (i.e., raft formation) in biomembranes plays a functional role in living cells. Three-component mixtures of low- and high-melting lipids plus cholesterol offer a simplified experimental model for raft domains in which a li...
Designed protein cages and related materials provide unique opportunities for applications in biotechnology and medicine, but their creation remains challenging. Here, we apply computational approaches to design a suite of tetrahedrally symmetric, se...
RNA nanotechnology aims to use RNA as a programmable material to create self-assembling nanodevices for application in medicine and synthetic biology. The main challenge is to develop advanced RNA robotic devices that both sense, compute, and actuate...
To solve three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules in situ, large numbers of particles often need to be picked from cryo-electron tomograms. However, adoption of automated particle-picking methods remains limited because of their tech...
Efficient and high-accuracy filtering of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) micrographs is an emerging challenge with the growing speed of data collection and sizes of datasets. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are machine learning models that ha...
Interpreting electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) maps with atomic models requires high levels of expertise and labour-intensive manual intervention in three-dimensional computer graphics programs. Here we present ModelAngelo, a machine-learning approa...
The application of computational biology in drug development for membrane protein targets has experienced a boost from recent developments in deep learning-driven structure prediction, increased speed and resolution of structure elucidation, machine ...
Over the last 15 years, structural biology has seen unprecedented development and improvement in two areas: electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) and predictive modeling. Once relegated to low resolutions, single-particle cryo-EM is now capable of achie...
Cryogenic electron microscopy maps are valuable for determining macromolecule structures. A proper quality assessment method is essential for cryo-EM map selection or revision. This article presents DeepQs, a novel approach to estimate local quality ...
Electron tomography is an imaging technique that allows for the elucidation of three-dimensional structural information of biological specimens in a very general context, including cellular in situ observations. The approach starts by collecting a se...
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