[3dem] 64bit MRC conversion

[Steven Ludtke]

Boxer, or any other eman1 or 2 program will read virtually any cryoem format. The issue is that the mrc spec has no support for 64 bit images...

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On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Henning Stahlberg <henning.stahlberg at unibas.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> MRC formats are described here:
> http://ami.scripps.edu/prtl_data/mrc_specification.htm
> 
> and we mirrored that page on 2dx.org, here:
> http://www.2dx.unibas.ch/documentation/mrc-software/mrc-documentation
> 
> The MRC program mrc2tif can do some conversions. 
> 
> Alternatively, bsoft 
> http://lsbr.niams.nih.gov/bsoft/
> http://lsbr.niams.nih.gov/bsoft/programs/bconvert.html
> 
> or EM2EM can do conversions also.
> http://www.imagescience.de/em2em/
> 
> Henning.
> 
> Henning Stahlberg, PhD
> Prof. for Structural Biology, C-CINA, Biozentrum, University Basel
> Mattenstrasse 26 | D-BSSE | WRO-1058 | CH-4058 Basel | Switzerland
> http://c-cina.org | Tel. +41-61-387 32 62
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 5, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Steven Ludtke wrote:
> 
>> Hi Kat. There is no such thing as a 64 bit mrc file (in the official specs). Where did it come from ? How do you know it is 64 bit ? 64 bit floating point or integer ?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Jan 5, 2012, at 9:28 AM, toropova <toropova at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear EM community, 
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know how to convert 64-bit MRC image files to a format that Boxer can read, e.g. 8/16-bit TIFF?
>>> 
>>> Many thanks, 
>>> Kat
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Katerina Toropova
>>> Postdoctoral Researcher 
>>> Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology
>>> Harvard University
>>> 305 NWB, 52 Oxford St.
>>> Cambridge, MA 02138
>>> 
>>> 
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