Publisher review:EMAN is a suite of scientific image processing tools aimed primarily for usage in the transmission electron microscopy. EMAN is a suite of scientific image processing tools aimed primarily at the transmission electron microscopy community, though it is beginning to be used in other fields as well. EMAN has a particular focus on performing a task known as single particle reconstruction.
In this method, images of nanoscale molecules and molecular assemblies embedded in vitreous (glassy) ice are collected on a transmission electron microscope, then processed using EMAN to produce a complete 3-D reconstruction at resolutions now approaching atomic resolution. For low resolution structures (~2 nm), this may require ~8 hours of computer processing and a few thousand particles. For structures aimed at ~0.5 nm or better resolution, hundreds of thousands of particles and hundreds of thousands of CPU-hours (on large computational clusters) may be required.
Scientific image processing is distinguished from typical 'Photoshop' image processing in that it is analyitical in nature. Images processed in EMAN are floating point greyscale images. That is, the pixel values in the images are represented as real numbers, not as small integers (typical GIF/JPG/PNG images are limited to integral values from 0-255 for each pixel). Processing often includes complex image processing operations in Fourier or Wavelet space. Requirements: · FFTW · libtiff · qscilib
EMAN is a C/C++ script for Chat Scripts scripts design by Steven Ludtke.
It runs on following operating system: Linux / BSD.
Operating system:Linux / BSD
EMAN script details 
