EMHP: an accurate automated hole masking algorithm for single-particle cryo-EM image processing.

Summary: The Electron Microscopy Hole Punch (EMHP) is a streamlined suite of tools for quick assessment, sorting and hole masking of electron micrographs. With recent advances in single-particle electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) data processing allowing for the rapid determination of protein structures using a smaller computational footprint, we saw the need for a fast and simple tool for data pre-processing that could run independent of existing high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. EMHP provides a data preprocessing platform in a small package that requires minimal python dependencies to function.

Availability and implementation: https://www.bitbucket.org/chazbot/emhp Apache 2.0 License.

Contact: [email protected].

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.