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    <p>I agree that it seems you have enough views and maybe the problem
      is in the generation of the initial volume. You may try with
      methods that work with class representatives, rather than raw
      images, in that way you get away from the preferred views. RANSAC
      and reconstruct significant from Xmipp are ones of these methods.
      You can access them through Scipion.</p>
    <p>Kind regards, Carlos Oscar<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 22/04/2021 a las 13:14, Marino
      Jacopo (PSI) escribió:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
            lang="EN-US">To me it does not look like you have  a severe
            orientation bias (if you have it at all), and you have
            plenty of particles !
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
            lang="EN-US">It might be some views are hidden within other
            classes. How many rounds of 2D-classes and selection you did
            already ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
            lang="EN-US">For ab-initio, you might play around with
            parameters (2 classes, zero similarity, higher number of
            final iterations, etc.) look on the cryosparc forum for
            similar discussions. Sometimes you need to play with the
            ab-initio till you get a volume that makes sense, then take
            the particles that come with it and go to refinement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
            lang="EN-US">If you want help with the parameters for
            Relion, you need to post a screenshot of your GUI with the
            parameters. Relion works well too !
          </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI
            Emoji",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
            lang="EN-US">😊</span><span
            style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
            lang="en-CH"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
              lang="EN-US"> Lucia <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:luciatorressanchez3@gmail.com"><luciatorressanchez3@gmail.com></a>
              <br>
              <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 22 April 2021 12:57<br>
              <b>To:</b> Marino Jacopo (PSI)
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jacopo.marino@psi.ch"><jacopo.marino@psi.ch></a><br>
              <b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu">3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu</a><br>
              <b>Subject:</b> Re: [3dem] Relion issue Autopick - 2D
              classification<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">Hi Jacopo,<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">I try but relion is my nightmare. I
              feel so useless with it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">In cryosparc I get nice 2D classes (or
              that what people say because of course I'm far far from
              have basic knowledge):<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">But then in the 3D, anything makes
              sense. The "best" AB-initio for the moment looks like...<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">So I moved to relion and I set
              different combinations of parameters, but when I try to do
              the 2D classes (independently of my parameters in the
              autopick) I get that:<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">It's obvious even for me that I'm doing
              something AWFULLY wrong, but I swear I tried and I don't
              understand what I'm doing wrong neither how to overcome
              it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!!!!<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">Lucia<o:p></o:p></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">El jue, 22 abr 2021 a las 12:43, Marino
              Jacopo (PSI) (<<a href="mailto:jacopo.marino@psi.ch"
                moz-do-not-send="true">jacopo.marino@psi.ch</a>>)
              escribió:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"
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                    lang="EN-US">Hi Lucia,</span><span lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US">Don’t be desperate. You are in the
                    initial phase of learning how to use Relion and
                    cryosparc, so frustration might be normal.</span><span
                    lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US">Preferential orientation is an
                    interesting topic and it might not impede that you
                    reach high resolution density maps.
                  </span><span lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US">The suggestion of using Relion to
                    circumvent orientation bias is funny. In Relion you
                    might need to play around with the parameters to
                    pick particles, better you do it with a small set of
                    micrographs.</span><span lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US">You can also continue with cryosparc,
                    maybe change the picking parameters to see whether
                    you really don’t have much other 2D classes.</span><span
                    lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US">Go to ab-initio with your best
                    2D-classes. What do you get there ?</span><span
                    lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US">Good luck</span><span lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="EN-US">Jacopo</span><span lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                    lang="en-CH"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
                        lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
                      3dem <<a
                        href="mailto:3dem-bounces@ncmir.ucsd.edu"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">3dem-bounces@ncmir.ucsd.edu</a>>
                      <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lucia<br>
                      <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 22 April 2021 12:17<br>
                      <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu</a><br>
                      <b>Subject:</b> [3dem] Relion issue Autopick - 2D
                      classification</span><span lang="en-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"
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                    lang="en-CH"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                      lang="en-CH">Hi all,<br>
                      <br>
                      Sorry for bother and thanks for your
                      patience/help. I’m trying to use Relion to
                      Autopick (Laplacian) a set of elongated particles
                      that are around 150A long. I managed to get a nice
                      set of 2D classes in Cryosparc but, since I have
                      preferential orientation, people recommend me to
                      use Relion to redo my dataset analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                        lang="en-CH"><br>
                        But... I'm really stuck, I have no experience
                        with Relion and I don't manage to get any good
                        autopicking that lead me to a 2D classification
                        (even a preliminar one to re do the picking
                        after), I just get black images or nonsense in
                        the 2D classification, even when I check the
                        images after the autopicking and they don't look
                        bad.<br>
                        <br>
                        Honestly idk what to put here about the
                        parameters that I'm using because I tried a
                        bunch but blindly (since I have no idea neither
                        experience).<br>
                        <br>
                        I was hoping someone could give me some
                        suggestions that help me to overcome that point
                        because I'm desperate.<br>
                        <br>
                        Thanks!<br>
                        Lucia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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