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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Yaser,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I agree with Sagar regarding the importance of zlp stability. It is not a trivial thing to get the environment stable enough with respect to temperature and
em fields to keep the zlp stable with the Bioquantum. While the K3 has a shorter minimum frame time, for practical data collection the Falcon 4 may be catching up. Another thing to consider is having one company to deal with can be less difficult than having
TFS blaming Gatan and Gatan blaming TFS for the problems. We have found this out on many occasions at Columbia. Those are just a few things to consider. I hope that helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> 3dem [mailto:3dem-bounces@ncmir.ucsd.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sagar Khavnekar<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 21, 2021 4:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> yaser hashem <yaser.hashem@u-bordeaux.fr><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [3dem] K3 vs Falcon 4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here @Martinsried we did a SPA comparison of Bioquantum + K3 vs TFS filter + F4 a while ago. I got similar resolutions to ~2 Angstroms with both. However, with Bioquantum + K3 I needed roughly double the number of particles. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now for the speed, I get ~340 movies/hour with serialEM's Multihole multishot setup (without FFI on a G3 Krios). I think that is comparable to what one would get with K3 (Maybe Wim Hagen can correct me!). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When it comes to robustness, I would any present-day go for a TFS filter until there is better! In my experience over last year, once tuned the filter is stable for well over a month. The zero-loss peak moves only by ~ +- 1ev over a week
(or two weeks!). Especially when we have one Krios and one Arctica in the same room with other hardware and offload servers. This allowed us to setup SerialEM without the need to communicate with the filter. (ZLP shift between record(165k/105k) and view(6.35k/411k)
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:40 AM yaser hashem <<a href="mailto:yaser.hashem@u-bordeaux.fr">yaser.hashem@u-bordeaux.fr</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At the Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (IECB) cryo-EM facility, we are looking to purchase either a Falcon 4 or a K3 DDD, in combination with and energy filter, on a Talos Arctica 200kV (that is already installed) or a Galcios 200kV
(that will be purchased additionally), we were wondering whether anyone could provide some insight on the performance comparison between both devices in terms of speed and DQE. The device will be used for cryo-EM applications, SP and tomography, over a variety
of molecular complexes ranging from several hundred kDa to several MDa, such as bacterial secretion systems, ribosomes and various membrane proteins complexes… <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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