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A deep learning-based method for modeling of RNA structures from cryo-EM maps

We developed a deep learning-based method, EMRNA, to automatically model RNA structures from cryo-electron microscopy maps. Evaluation of EMRNA on diverse test sets of RNA maps shows that it builds RNA models with high accuracy and efficiency.

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Fig. 1: EMRNA workflow and examples of built models.

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This is a summary of: Li, T. et al. All-atom RNA structure determination from cryo-EM maps. Nat. Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02149-8 (2024)

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