Walkthrough on command line based tilt series alignment

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This is the command line based version of the GUI based alignment walkthrough

Create the workflow

name = 'hivCommandLine';
folder = 'workflows';
u = dtsa(name,'--nogui','-path',folder,'fp',1); 

Here, we instruct Dynamo to skip opening the GUI. We also create the workflow in a different folder.

Entering the data

The u object contains several areas to interact with the workflow. They can be found by autocompletion using the tab key. Here, we will proceed step by step; remember that you can write all the command lines in a single .m script.

Basic data

u.enter.tiltSeries(fileWorkshop);

u.enter.tiltAngles(-57:3:60);

If you want to reject some of the hight tilts (or any other view that appears to have been damages,) u.enter.discardedTiltIndices([1,40]);

Acquisition settings

u.enter.settingAcquisition.apix(2.7);

Computation settings

u.enter.settingComputing.parallelCPUUse(1);

Detection settings

These here are the actual design decisions when running an alignment workflow:

u.enter.settingDetection.beadRadius(16); u.enter.settingDetection.maskRadius(28);

u.enter.templateSidelength(64);

The bin level is mainly used to accelerate the detection procedure. Needs to be chosen in a way that a binned gold bead still can be recognisable as such, with a radius of at least 4 pixels.

u.enter.settingDetection.detectionBinningFactor(1);

Changing generic parameters

Yo can find handles to the parameters of the individuals steps through auto ompletion on the area, then step items.

u.area.indexing.step.tiltGapFiller.parameterSet.residualsThreshold(8);


Running the workflow

u.run.all('noctf',1);

On the fly reconstruction of particles

Grep coordinates in the binned tomogram

dtmslice 'workflows/new.AWF/reconstruction/binnedReconstructionWBP.mrc';

Reconstruct particles on the fly

The command that reconstructs full sized particles from an aligned stack is dynama_table_trec. This is an independent function, not part of the workflow, implying that we will need to perform some format conversion.

tbl = dread('binnedGoldbeads.tbl');

We scale the table

alignmentBinLevel = 2;

tblFull = dynamo_table_rescale(tbl,'factor',2^alignmentBinLevel);


source  = 'workflows/new.AWF/align/alignedFullStack.mrc';


We create a data folder to contain the particles reconstructed on the fly.

targetDirectory = 'tempCrop.Data';

if exist(targetDirectory,'dir')==7

   o.e('Deleting directory');
  rmdir(targetDirectory,'s'); 

end

Angles are contained in the

angles =  'workflows/new.AWF/align/reconstructionTiltAngles.tlt';

sidelength = 160;

% % shift tomogram center % % if the binned visualization tomogram would contain a shift % we would have to scale it visualizationTomogram = 'workflows/ hivCommandLine.AWF/reconstruction/binnedReconstructionWBP.mrc'; sizeTomogram = dynamo_read_size(visualizationTomogram); sizeTomogramFull = sizeTomogram*2^alignmentBinLevel;


% % shift tomogram center % % if the binned visualization tomogram would contain a shift % we would have to scale it shiftTomogramCenter = [0,0,0];

% % command executions % dynamo_table_rec(tblFull,source,angles,targetDirectory,sidelength,....

   'applyRampFilter',1,....
   'sizeTomogram',sizeTomogramFull,....
   'shiftTomogramCenter',shiftTomogramCenter);

figure;dslices(targetDirectory,'proj','c');shg; disp('done');