Q: Can I use EMAN2 to run 3-D refinements yet ?
A: This is answer is rapidly changing. We will be hosting a workshop focusing primarily on EMAN2 (and related topics) this December. We are committed to having all of these things working fully by then:
- Particle picking
- 2-D refinement
- 3-D refinement
- full CTF correction using a new model
- parallelism
- Good visualization tools
- Basic 3-D desktop environment
At the present time, 1 and 6 are in good shape. We have initial versions of 2, 3, and 7, and have started work on 4 and 5. ie - as of 6/25/08 I would only really recommend EMAN2 for particle picking, visualization and utility operations. You can try 2-D refinement, which is much faster than EMAN1 2-D refinement, but doesn't perform quite as well (at least with default parameters) yet.