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  1. Article ; Online: Ot2Rec: A semi-automatic, extensible, multi-software tomographic reconstruction workflow.

    Yee, Neville B-Y / Ho, Elaine M L / Tun, Win / Smith, Jake L R / Dumoux, Maud / Grange, Michael / Darrow, Michele C / Basham, Mark

    Biological imaging

    2023  Volume 3, Page(s) e10

    Abstract: Electron cryo-tomography is an imaging technique for probing 3D structures with at the nanometer scale. This technique has been used extensively in the biomedical field to study the complex structures of proteins and other macromolecules. With the ... ...

    Abstract Electron cryo-tomography is an imaging technique for probing 3D structures with at the nanometer scale. This technique has been used extensively in the biomedical field to study the complex structures of proteins and other macromolecules. With the advancement in technology, microscopes are currently capable of producing images amounting to terabytes of data per day, posing great challenges for scientists as the speed of processing of the images cannot keep up with the ever-higher throughput of the microscopes. Therefore, automation is an essential and natural pathway on which image processing-from individual micrographs to full tomograms-is developing. In this paper, we present Ot2Rec, an open-source pipelining tool which aims to enable scientists to build their own processing workflows in a flexible and automatic manner. The basic building blocks of Ot2Rec are plugins which follow a unified application programming interface structure, making it simple for scientists to contribute to Ot2Rec by adding features which are not already available. In this paper, we also present three case studies of image processing using Ot2Rec, through which we demonstrate the speedup of using a semi-automatic workflow over a manual one, the possibility of writing and using custom (prototype) plugins, and the flexibility of Ot2Rec which enables the mix-and-match of plugins. We also demonstrate, in the Supplementary Material, a built-in reporting feature in Ot2Rec which aggregates the metadata from all process being run, and output them in the Jupyter Notebook and/or HTML formats for quick review of image processing quality. Ot2Rec can be found at https://github.com/rosalindfranklininstitute/ot2rec.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-29
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2633-903X
    ISSN (online) 2633-903X
    DOI 10.1017/S2633903X23000107
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  2. Article ; Online: Plasma FIB milling for the determination of structures in situ.

    Berger, Casper / Dumoux, Maud / Glen, Thomas / Yee, Neville B-Y / Mitchels, John M / Patáková, Zuzana / Darrow, Michele C / Naismith, James H / Grange, Michael

    Nature communications

    2023  Volume 14, Issue 1, Page(s) 629

    Abstract: Structural biology studies inside cells and tissues require methods to thin vitrified specimens to electron transparency. Until now, focused ion beams based on gallium have been used. However, ion implantation, changes to surface chemistry and an ... ...

    Abstract Structural biology studies inside cells and tissues require methods to thin vitrified specimens to electron transparency. Until now, focused ion beams based on gallium have been used. However, ion implantation, changes to surface chemistry and an inability to access high currents limit gallium application. Here, we show that plasma-coupled ion sources can produce cryogenic lamellae of vitrified human cells in a robust and automated manner, with quality sufficient for pseudo-atomic structure determination. Lamellae were produced in a prototype microscope equipped for long cryogenic run times (> 1 week) and with multi-specimen support fully compatible with modern-day transmission electron microscopes. We demonstrate that plasma ion sources can be used for structural biology within cells, determining a structure in situ to 4.9 Å, and characterise the resolution dependence on particle distance from the lamella edge. We describe a workflow upon which different plasmas can be examined to further streamline lamella fabrication.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Microscopy ; Electrons ; Workflow ; Carmustine
    Chemical Substances Carmustine (U68WG3173Y)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-06
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2553671-0
    ISSN 2041-1723 ; 2041-1723
    ISSN (online) 2041-1723
    ISSN 2041-1723
    DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-36372-9
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  3. Article ; Online: Okapi-EM: A napari plugin for processing and analyzing cryogenic serial focused ion beam/scanning electron microscopy images.

    Perdigão, Luís M A / Ho, Elaine M L / Cheng, Zhiyuan C / Yee, Neville B-Y / Glen, Thomas / Wu, Liang / Grange, Michael / Dumoux, Maud / Basham, Mark / Darrow, Michele C

    Biological imaging

    2023  Volume 3, Page(s) e9

    Abstract: An emergent volume electron microscopy technique called cryogenic serial plasma focused ion beam milling scanning electron microscopy (pFIB/SEM) can decipher complex biological structures by building a three-dimensional picture of biological samples at ... ...

    Abstract An emergent volume electron microscopy technique called cryogenic serial plasma focused ion beam milling scanning electron microscopy (pFIB/SEM) can decipher complex biological structures by building a three-dimensional picture of biological samples at mesoscale resolution. This is achieved by collecting consecutive SEM images after successive rounds of FIB milling that expose a new surface after each milling step. Due to instrumental limitations, some image processing is necessary before 3D visualization and analysis of the data is possible. SEM images are affected by noise, drift, and charging effects, that can make precise 3D reconstruction of biological features difficult. This article presents Okapi-EM, an open-source napari plugin developed to process and analyze cryogenic serial pFIB/SEM images. Okapi-EM enables automated image registration of slices, evaluation of image quality metrics specific to pFIB-SEM imaging, and mitigation of charging artifacts. Implementation of Okapi-EM within the napari framework ensures that the tools are both user- and developer-friendly, through provision of a graphical user interface and access to Python programming.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-27
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2633-903X
    ISSN (online) 2633-903X
    DOI 10.1017/S2633903X23000119
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  4. Article ; Online: Cryo-plasma FIB/SEM volume imaging of biological specimens.

    Dumoux, Maud / Glen, Thomas / Smith, Jake L R / Ho, Elaine M L / Perdigão, Luis M A / Pennington, Avery / Klumpe, Sven / Yee, Neville B Y / Farmer, David Andrew / Lai, Pui Y A / Bowles, William / Kelley, Ron / Plitzko, Jürgen M / Wu, Liang / Basham, Mark / Clare, Daniel K / Siebert, C Alistair / Darrow, Michele C / Naismith, James H /
    Grange, Michael

    eLife

    2023  Volume 12

    Abstract: Serial focussed ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB/SEM) enables imaging and assessment of subcellular structures on the mesoscale (10 nm to 10 µm). When applied to vitrified samples, serial FIB/SEM is also a means to target specific structures in ...

    Abstract Serial focussed ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB/SEM) enables imaging and assessment of subcellular structures on the mesoscale (10 nm to 10 µm). When applied to vitrified samples, serial FIB/SEM is also a means to target specific structures in cells and tissues while maintaining constituents' hydration shells for in situ structural biology downstream. However, the application of serial FIB/SEM imaging of non-stained cryogenic biological samples is limited due to low contrast, curtaining, and charging artefacts. We address these challenges using a cryogenic plasma FIB/SEM. We evaluated the choice of plasma ion source and imaging regimes to produce high-quality SEM images of a range of different biological samples. Using an automated workflow we produced three-dimensional volumes of bacteria, human cells, and tissue, and calculated estimates for their resolution, typically achieving 20-50 nm. Additionally, a tag-free localisation tool for regions of interest is needed to drive the application of in situ structural biology towards tissue. The combination of serial FIB/SEM with plasma-based ion sources promises a framework for targeting specific features in bulk-frozen samples (>100 µm) to produce lamellae for cryogenic electron tomography.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Microscopy, Electron, Scanning ; Electron Microscope Tomography/methods ; Ions ; Imaging, Three-Dimensional/methods
    Chemical Substances Ions
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-21
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2687154-3
    ISSN 2050-084X ; 2050-084X
    ISSN (online) 2050-084X
    ISSN 2050-084X
    DOI 10.7554/eLife.83623
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