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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Exp Med Biol. 2012;726:49–90. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0980-9_4

Table 4.

Computational tools used in the validation and analysis of cryo-EM density maps

Function Program Name (Reference)
Segmentation Amira (Visage Imaging, GmbH)
Avizo (VSG, France)
Chimera (Pettersen et al., 2004)
CoDiv (Volkmann, 2002)
EMAN (Ludtke et al., 1999; Tang et al., 2007)
Segger (Pintilie et al., 2010)
VolRover (Baker et al., 2006)
Rigid body fitting Chimera (Pettersen et al., 2004)
CoFi (Volkmann and Hanein, 1999)
DockEM (Roseman, 2000)
EMFit (Rossmann, 2000)
Foldhunter (Jiang et al., 2001)
Mod-EM (Topf and Sali, 2005)
Situs (Wriggers et al., 1999)
UROX (Siebert and Navaza, 2009)
Flexible fitting DireX (Schröder et al., 2007)
Flex-EM (Topf et al., 2008)
MDFF (Trabuco et al., 2009)
NMFF (Tama et al., 2004)
NORMA (Suhre et al., 2006)
Yup.scx (Tan et al., 2008)
Situs (Rusu et al., 2008)
SSE Identification Helixhunter (Jiang et al., 2001)
Sheetminer/Sheetracer (Kong and Ma, 2003; Kong et al., 2004)
SSEHunter (Baker et al., 2007)
Modeling Coot (Emsley and Cowtan, 2004)
EM-IMO (Zhu et al., 2010)
Gorgon (Baker et al., 2011)
Modeller (Topf et al., 2006; Topf and Sali, 2005)
O (Jones et al., 1991)
Rosetta (Baker, 2006; DiMaio et al., 2009)
Visualization Amira (Visage Imaging, GmbH)
Avizo (VSG, France)
Chimera (Pettersen et al., 2004)
PyMol (DeLano Scientific LLC, USA)
VMD (Humphrey et al., 1996)