Synthetic High-resolution Cryo-EM Density Maps with Generative Adversarial Networks
<|reference_start|>Synthetic High-resolution Cryo-EM Density Maps with Generative Adversarial Networks: Generating synthetic cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) 3D density maps from molecular structures has potential important applications in structural biology. Yet existing simulation-based methods cannot mimic all the complex features present in experimental maps, such as secondary structure elements. As an alternative, we propose struc2mapGAN, a novel data-driven method that employs a generative adversarial network (GAN) to produce high-resolution experimental-like density maps from molecular structures. More specifically, struc2mapGAN uses a U-Net++ architecture as the generator, with an additional L1 loss term and further processing of raw experimental maps to enhance learning efficiency. While struc2mapGAN can promptly generate maps after training, we demonstrate that it outperforms existing simulation-based methods for a wide array of tested maps and across various evaluation metrics. Our code is available at https://github.com/chenwei-zhang/struc2mapGAN.<|reference_end|>
@article{zhang2024synthetic,
    title={Synthetic High-resolution Cryo-EM Density Maps with Generative
  Adversarial Networks},
    author={Chenwei Zhang, Anne Condon, Khanh Dao Duc},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17674},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.17674},
    primaryClass={cs.LG q-bio.BM}
}