Delft Workshop 2017
A guide to use Dynamo during the TU Delft workshop for Cryo-EM. This covers the afternoon session of the 6th of September of 2017.
Preinstalling the software
We suggest students to download, install and test the software before departing for the workshop. Data should also be downloaded beforehand.
Downloading Dynamo
Download the package in these google links for linux or Mac respectively. After download (~4Gb), proceed to install and test
Free license for Matlab
We advice you to preinstall Matlab on your laptop. This makes the work with Dynamo much easier
You can get a trial version of Matlab and install it on your laptop. The license will be valid for 30 days. After installing Matlab, you can download the Dynamo version for your platform.
Virtual machines
If your system does not recognize the libraries provided in your package, you always have the option of installing a Virtual Machine in your system that emulates the Ubuntu distribution of linux. In this environment, Dynamo will run without errors, although the performance of the graphics system will be severely decreased. We recommend to use this device as a last resource.
Download an Ubuntu distribution
The version 16.04.3 of Ubuntu can be download as an iso file here
Download the virtual machine
A virtual machine can be downloaded here. A detailed walkthrough on the diverse steps can be found here
Data
Data should be downloaded beforehand:
wget https://wiki.dynamo.biozentrum.unibas.ch/w/doc/data/hiv/v17.rec wget https://wiki.dynamo.biozentrum.unibas.ch/w/doc/data/t20s/t20s.mrc wget https://wiki.dynamo.biozentrum.unibas.ch/w/doc/data/fhv/crop.rec
Computer access
Will be announced during the course.
Opening a Linux terminal
We need to create a command terminal. Right click on the screen and select Open Terminal in the menu . A Linux command window will popup. Please create a folder for this course.
mkdir tomo cd tomo
Starting Dynamo
In the Linux terminal, open Matlab through:
matlab &
it will take some secons. Then, in the Matlab window write:
run /ISB2017/dynamo/dynamo_activate.m
This will activate Dynamo in the current Matlab session.
Data
Program
Introduction to tomography and subtomogram averaging
45 minutes of presentation to introduce tomography, subtomogram averaging and Dynamo.
Tutorial 1: Getting started
on screen presentation/hands-on practical. The presentation will loosely the introductory materials in:
- tutorial on basic elements: help, data and metadata formats.
- tutorial on the basic concept in Dynamo alignment: the project.
After the introduction of these general concepts, will follow together the basic hands-on tutorial of Dynamo.
Advanced getting started
After the coffee break at 16:00 participants will follow the advanced introduction on a reduced data set from a real tomogram.
Instructors
- Daniel Castaño-Díez, BioEM Lab, University of Basel
- Paula Pérez-Navarro, C-CINA, University of Basel
- Cynthia Taveneau, Institut Curie, Paris
