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<span style="color:black">We are happy to announce our particle picking software: KLT picker.</span><br>
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<span style="color:black">It is a fully automatic picking program, which requires as an input only the approximated particle size. In particular, it does not require any manual picking. The method is especially designed to handle low SNR micrographs. The paper
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<span style="color:black">Eldar A, Landa B, Shkolnisky Y. KLT picker: Particle picking using data-driven optimal templates. J Struct Biol. 2020 May;210(2) 107473.</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">The program is available through pypi (package name: <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm; background:white">kltpicker</span>) . See <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pypi.org/project/kltpicker/__;!!Mih3wA!QjC5Dw2LT4G7LbKRpvk2TUB2pjMQYhIojACb9ih-d9vYZxe9Z3XkwbfXpae5MhIseQ$" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">https://pypi.org/project/kltpicker/</span></a> for
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<span style="color:black">The complete source code and documentation are available at <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/ShkolniskyLab/kltpicker__;!!Mih3wA!QjC5Dw2LT4G7LbKRpvk2TUB2pjMQYhIojACb9ih-d9vYZxe9Z3XkwbfXpacHweP7YA$" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">https://github.com/ShkolniskyLab/kltpicker</span></a></span></p>
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