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Topaz-Denoise: general deep denoising models for cryoEM and cryoET

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Topaz-Denoise helps see through the noise to identify previously unseen protein conformations and reduce microscope exposure times!

This paper presents Topaz-Denoise, a general deep-learning method and trained models for removing noise from cryoEM micrographs and cryoET tomograms. The authors demonstrate that denoising with Topaz allows for the identification of particles previously unseen due to low SNR, thus allowing for solving protein structures with more complete particle orientations and identifying new conformations, as well as substantially reducing electron dose and microscope exposure time without sacrificing data quality.

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Scientists found a smart computer program that can clean up blurry pictures of tiny building blocks in our bodies. This helps them see the tiny parts much clearer and faster, like magic glasses for scientists!

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Identified Limitations

Hallucination of information
The general denoising model does not perform well when doing de novo ab initio reconstruction, thus there is some hallucination of information from the training datasets being imprinted on the denoised data, and thus the general models may not be ideal for 3D refinement where this may become a confounder.

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This paper presents a useful method for improving interpretability of low SNR cryoEM and cryoET data that, if used properly, can lead to new discoveries.

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Original Title: Topaz-Denoise: general deep denoising models for cryoEM and cryoET
Uploaded: July 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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