Question about running time of cryoDRGN2 and NeRF

[zhouzhenghong-gt]

Thanks for your great work!! And I have two question about cryoDRGN2.

1. Will training schedule of cryoDRGN2 lead to a long training time?
2. In your cryoDRGN2 paper, you mention that gradient descent can't optimize pose, have you tried some NeRF related methods such as nerf--, BARF or GNeRF?
   Thanks for your time!

[zhonge]

Thanks for asking. 1) yes it will lead to a much longer training time than without pose search. Despite that, cryoDRGN2 is significantly faster and more accurate than cryoDRGN1's pose inference (described in the ICLR paper), though we're thinking of ways to make it even faster 2) yes, first order gradient based optimization has been technically available in the main cryoDRGN software since the initial release (--do-pose-sgd) but requires different training settings and doesn't lead to a large difference in many cases, I believe due to the high amount of noise in cryo-EM images. It could be evaluated further though.

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[ag-deepesh]

Hi Ellen,
Indeed Great work !
Looking forward to run CryoDRGN2. Will it not require Relion or CryoSparc to generate "homogeneous reconstruction" to get poses which is an input for CryoDRGN? Also, is the beta-version of the CryoDRGN2 code available somewhere already or you are planning to release it in sometime ?
Thank you.