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Leginon: a system for fully automated acquisition of 1000 electron micrographs a day
1Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 61801, USA. cpotter@uiuc.edu
Ultramicroscopy
|July 16, 1999
Abstract:
We have developed a system to automatically acquire large numbers of acceptable quality images from specimens of negatively stained catalase, a biological protein which forms crystals. In this paper we will describe the details of the system architecture and analyze the performance of the system as compared to a human operator. The ultimate goal of the system if to automate the process of acquiring cryo-electron micrographs.