About

SPRING (S ingle P article R econstruction from I mages of kN own G eometry) is a single-particle based helical reconstruction package for electron cryo-micrographs and has been used to determine 3D structures of a variety of highly ordered and less ordered specimens. Spring provides the entire single-particle based work-flow required for helical reconstruction including:

  • Classification

  • Helical symmetry determination and refinement tools

  • High-resolution structure refinement

  • Multi-symmetry structure refinement

Spring is still maintained in the Sachse lab at the Ernst-Ruska Centre of the Research Centre Juelich for the Unix operating systems of MacOSX and Linux.

Reference

If you find Spring useful for your research, please cite:

Desfosses, A., Ciuffa, R., Gutsche, I., and Sachse, C. (2014). SPRING - an image processing package for single-particle based helical reconstruction from electron cryomicrographs. J Struct Biol 185, 15-26.

For further information find more Spring-related publications.

Installation

We provide binary downloads that include all required components and build recipes for all dependencies. Follow install instructions for more details.

Acknowledgements

Spring is released under the modified BSD lisence and integrates several different electron-microscopy specific and other open-source packages. Spring is entirely written in Python and is based on the EM functions and libraries of:

  1. EMAN2.91

  2. SPARX

  3. CTFFIND/CTFTILT

Dependencies

Spring makes use of a number of scientific computing packages:

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Board of Directors

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Chairman of the Board of Directors)
Karsten Beneke (Vice-Chairman)
Prof. Dr. Harald Bolt
Dr. Astrid Lambrecht
Prof. Dr. Frauke Melchior

Supervisory Board

Ministerialdirektor Volker Rieke

Responsible in the sense of § 18, Abs. 2, Medienstaatsvertrag (MStV)

Prof. Dr. Carsten Sachse
Ernst-Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons 3 / Structural Biology
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428 Jülich

Contact

General inquiries: +49 2461 61-0
General fax no.: +49 2461 61-8100
Email address: info@fz-juelich.de

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