asarnow/SPIDER

SPIDER (System for Processing Image Data from Electron microscopy and Related fields) is an image processing system for electron microscopy, especially usefull for single-particle reconstruction.

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SPIDER (System for Processing Image Data from Electron microscopy and Related fields) is an image processing system for electron microscopy, especially usefull for single-particle reconstruction. SPIDER has been in use since 1978.

This repository currently holds only SPIDER source code and text documentation since the complete documentation is not yet suitable for inclusion in Github. It contains 210,000 lines of Fortran code and 7400 files. A complete distribution is available elsewhere.

• Uses:

  1. Averaging of single particle objects

  2. Multivariate statistical analysis

  3. 3D reconstruction

  4. Object segmentation

  5. Electron tomography

• Details:

  1. Interactive command line interface.

  2. Hierarchical modular design for scripting.

  3. Graphical user interface, Web, for visualizing and interacting with images.

  4. Uses a File format interchangeable with other electron microscopy imaging systems.

  5. Extensive documentation of operations and techniques.

  6. Includes source code and is currently supported on Linux and Aix.

  7. Includes PubSub for use on clusters.

• History:

  1. Originated in 1978 at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York by: Joachim Frank

  2. Contributors: J. Frank, B. Shimkin, H. Dowse, L. Miranda, C. Mannella, J. P. Bretaudiere, A. Verschoor, M. Radermacher, A. Leith, J. M. Carazo, P. Penczek, L. Odesanya, Y. H. Li, M. Ladjadj, Y. Chen, K. R. Lata, J. Zhu, W. P. Liu, B. Rath, C. Yang, B. Baxter, R. Hegerl, A. Frangakis, L. Joyeux, Z. Huang, R. J. Renka, T. Shaikh, J. Sengupta, J. LeBarron, N. Boisset, H. Gao, G. Kishchenko.

  3. Maintained since 2007 by: ArDean Leith & Tanvir Shaikh.

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Copyright under GPL.