CryoSAMU
CryoSAMU enhances intermediate-resolution cryo-EM maps using a structure-aware multimodal U-Net, integrating map features with protein language model embeddings for faster, high-quality results.

Enhancing cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) 3D density maps at intermediate resolution (4-8 Å) is crucial in protein structure determination. CryoSAMU is a novel method designed to enhance these maps using structure-aware multimodal U-Nets. It integrates 3D map features with structural embeddings from the ESM-IF1 protein language model. By training on a curated dataset of intermediate-resolution maps, CryoSAMU improves map quality, shows competitive performance against state-of-the-art methods, and achieves significantly faster processing speeds.
Estimated resource cost: 0.000527
Categories: Structure Prediction & Folding
Tags: Cryo-EM Nucleotides Proteins
Key Capabilities
- First multimodal network integrating structural information into a 3D U-Net for cryo-EM map enhancement.
- Uses cross-attention mechanisms to fuse 3D map features with structural embeddings from ESM-IF1.
- Employs a self-attention-based post-processing for structural embeddings to preserve chain and residue relationships.
- Optimized for intermediate-resolution (4-8 Å) cryo-EM maps.
- Demonstrates competitive performance with significantly faster processing speeds (4.2x to 16.7x faster than other methods).
- Improves protein structure modeling from density maps, increasing residue coverage and sequence match.
Runtime Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| runtime_mean | 69 |
| runtime_median | 34 |
| runtime_std | 87 |
| runtime_90th_percentile | 194 |
| runtime_max | 412 |
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