Version 1.5.4

Primary Bsoft papers

Heymann, J. B. (2001) Bsoft: Image and molecular processing in electron microscopy. J. Struct. Biol. 133(2/3), 156 - 169.

Heymann, J. B. & Belnap, D. M. (2007) Bsoft: Image processing and molecular modeling for electron microscopy. J. Struct. Biol. 157(1), 3 - 18.

Heymann, J. B., Cardone, G., Winkler, D. C. & Steven, A. C. (2007) Computational resources for cryo-electron tomography in Bsoft. J. Struct. Biol. 161(3), 232 - 242.

 

Radon package

Lanzavecchia S., Bellon P.L. & Radermacher M. (1999) Fast and accurate three dimensional reconstruction from projections with random orientations via Radon transforms. J. Struct. Biol. 128, 152 - 164.

Lanzavecchia S., Cantele F., Radermacher M. & Bellon P.L. (2002) Symmetry embedding in the reconstruction of macromolecular assemblies via the discrete Radon transform. J. Struct. Biol., 137, 259 - 272.


Peach distributed processing system

Leong, P.A., Heymann, J.B. & Jensen, G.J. (2005) Peach: A simple perl-based system for distributed computation and its application to Cryo-EM data processing. Structure 13(4), 505 - 511.

 

Use of Bsoft

Grünewald, K., Desai, P., Winkler, D. C., Heymann, J. B., Belnap, D. M., Baumeister, W. and Steven, A. C. (2003). Three-dimensional structure of herpes simplex virus from cryo-electron tomography. Science 302(5649): 1396 - 1398.

Harris, A., Cardone, G., Winkler, D. C. , Heymann, J. B., Brecher, M., White, J. M., Steven, A. C. (2006) Influenza virus pleiomorphy characterized by cryoelectron tomography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U. S. A. 103(50): 19123 - 19127.

Heymann, J. B. & Engel, A. (2000) Structural clues in the sequences of the aquaporins. J. Mol. Biol. 295, 1039 - 1053.

Heymann, J. B., Müller, D. J., Landau, E. M., Rosenbusch, J. P., Pebay-Peyroula, E., Büldt, G. & Engel, A. (1999) Charting the surfaces of the purple membrane. J. Struct. Biol. 128(3), 243 - 249.

Heymann, J. B., Pfeiffer, M., Hildebrandt, V., Kaback, R., Fotiadis, D., de Groot, B., Engel, A., Büldt, G., Oesterhelt, D. & Müller, D. J. (2000). Conformations of the rhodopsin third cytoplasmic loop grafted onto bacteriorhodopsin. Structure 8, 643 - 653.

Heymann, J.B., Cheng, N., Newcomb, W.W., Trus, B.L., Brown, J.C. & Steven, A.C. (2003) Dynamics of herpes simplex virus capsid maturation visualized by time-lapse cryo-electron microscopy. Nature Structural Biology 10(5), 334 - 341.

Heymann, J.B., Iwasaki, K., Yim, Y.-I., Cheng, N., Belnap, D.M., Greene, L.E., Eisenberg, E. & Stevens, A.C. (2005) Visualization of the binding of Hsc70 ATPase to clathrin baskets: Implications for an uncoating mechanism. Journal of Biological Chemistry 280(8), 7156 - 7161.

Iancu, C. V., Wright, E. R., Benjamin, J., Tivol, W. F., Dias, D. P., Murphy, G. E., Heymann, J. B., and Jensen, G. J. (2005) A "flip-flop" rotation stage for routine dual-axis electron cryotomography. Journal of Structural Biology 151(3): 288 - 297.

Iancu, C. V., Wright, E. R., Heymann, J. B., and Jensen, G. J. (2006) A comparison of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium as cryogens for electron cryotomography. Journal of Structural Biology 153(3): 231 - 240.

Ortega, J., Heymann, J. B., Kajava, A. V., Rechsteiner, M. and Steven, A. C. (2005) The Axial Channel of the 20S Proteasome Opens Upon Binding of the PA200 Activator. Journal of Molecular Biology 346: 1221 - 1227.

Pittet, J.-J., Henn, C., Engel, A. & Heymann, J. B. (1999) Visualizing 3D data obtained from microscopy on the Internet. J. Struct. Biol. 125, 123 - 132.

Trus, B. L., Heymann, J. B., Nealon, K., Cheng, N., Newcomb, W. W., Brown, J. C., Kedes, D. H. & Steven, A. C. (2001) Capsid structure of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, a gammaherpesvirus, compared to an alphaherpesvirus, herpes simplex virus type 1, and a betaherpesvirus, cytomegalovirus. J. Virol., 75(6), 2879 - 2890.

 

Algorithms used in Bsoft

Cardone, G., Grunewald, K. &Steven AC. (2005) A resolution criterion for electron tomography based on cross-validation. J Struct Biol. 151(2), 117-129.

Cowley, J. M. (1995) Diffraction Physics. 3rd Rev. Ed. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam. (Multislice image simulation)

de la Fraga, L. G., Dopazo, J. & Carazo, J. M. (1995) Confidence limits for resolution estimation in image averaging by random subsampling. Ultramicroscopy 60, 385 - 391.

Frangakis, A. S. & Hegerl, R. (2001) Noise reduction in electron tomographic reconstructions using nonlinear anisotropic diffusion. J Struct Biol. 135(3), 239 - 250.

Frank, J., Verschoor, A. & Miloslav Boublik, M. (1981) Computer Averaging of Electron Micrographs of 40S Ribosomal Subunits. Science 214, 1353 - 1355.

Frey, B. J. and D. Dueck (2007) Clustering by passing messages between data points. Science 315, 972 - 976.

Gobel, U., Sander, C., Schneider, R. & Valencia, A. (1994) Correlated mutations and residue contacts in proteins. Proteins 18, 309 - 317.

Hall, S. R. (1991) The STAR file: A new format for electronic data transfer and archiving. J. Chem. Inform. Comput. Sci. 31, 326 - 333.

Hall, S. R., Allen, F. H. and Brown, I. D. (1991) The Crystallographic Information File (CIF): a new standard archive file for crystallography[1]. Acta Crystall. A47, 655 - 685.

Press, W.H., Teukolsky, S.A., Vetterling, W.T. & Flannery, B.P. (1992) Numerical Recipes in C. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Downhill simplex method of Nelder and Mead, Student's t-test, poisson distributed random numbers, LU decomposition, singular value decomposition, eigen analysis, factorial)

Saxton, W. O. and Baumeister, W. (1982) The correlation averaging of a regularly arranged bacterial cell envelope protein. J. Microsc. 127, 127 - 138.

Unser, M., Trus, B. L. and Steven, A. C. (1987) A new resolution criterion based on spectral signal-to-noise ratios. Ultramicr. 23, 39 - 52.

Winkelmann, D. A., Baker, T. S. & Rayment, I. (1991) Three-dimensional structure of myosin subfragment-1 from electron microscopy of sectioned crystals. J. Cell Biology 114, 701 - 713.


Software coopted in Bsoft

FFTW

Frigo, M. & Johnson, S. G. (1997) The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. MIT-LCS-TR-728 (September 1997)

Frigo, M. & Johnson, S. G. (1998) FFTW: An adaptive software architecture for the FFT. In Proceedings of the ICASSP eds.), p. 1381.

Frigo, M. (1999) A fast fourier transform compiler. In Proceedings of the Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation eds.), ACM SIGPLAN, Atlanta, Georgia.

TIFF

Aldus (1992) TIFF revision 6.0. Aldus Corporation, Seattle, Washington.

PNG

JPEG