Frealign

Overview

[[http://emlab.rose2.brandeis.edu/frealign|Frealign] is a program for high-resolution refinement of 3D reconstructions from cryo-EM images of single particles, originally developed at the MRC/LMB. It is now developed and maintained by the Grigorieff lab at Brandeis.

The main FreAlign documentation can be found here.

Installation

Linux:

1) Download FreAlign here

2) Move the FreAlign tar file to your desired installation location

3) Untar FreAlign: tar -xvf frealign_v8.09_######.tar.gz

4) In your .bashrc, include the command:

5) FreAlign is ready to be run. From the command line:

OSX:

1) Download FreAlign from the above link.

2) Move the FreAlign tar file to your desired installation location

3) Unzip FreAlign: tar -xvf frealign_v8.09_######.tar.gz

4) You will need a fortran compiler installed on your Mac.

5) Change to the source directory in your frealign installation directory:

6) Use the appropriate Makefile. Assuming you are using the Intel 64-bit x86:

Windows: Dr. Grigorieff has kindly made a windows executable available for download, since establishing a Fortran build environment on Windows is