Hi Kai, thanks for this hint! I shall try and let you know the result. I suppose these parameters can be entered in the 'additional arguments box'! Dieter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dieter Blaas, Max F. Perutz Laboratories Medical University of Vienna, Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, A-1030 Vienna, Austria, Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, Fax: 0043 1 4277 9616, e-mail: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Am 01.09.2014 00:20, schrieb Kai Zhang: > Hi Dieter, > > Did you tried --only_flip_phases(or --ctf_intact_first_peak) and/or > --strict_highres_exp? It helps a lot for uncleaned data sets with strong > orientation preference. > > Kai > > On Sun, 2014-08-31 at 14:52 +0200, Dieter Blaas wrote: >> Hi Sjors and all, >> I am trying to get a reasonable number of 2D class averages by >> running a 2D-classification on an old icosahedral virus dataset (about >> 10,000 images, 50 classes). After each run I select the classes with >> features recognizable as viral, remove the trash, and run it again. I am >> now at run 5 and I am still getting only 2 classes recognizable as viral >> projections (in sum about 99% of the images) and about 40 classes >> containing between 1 and 20 'bad' images. I have tried T=1, 1.5, and 2 >> and angular sampling 5 and 2.5 but regardless of these parameters it >> seems to go on for ever (each new run finds new 'trash images' and I do >> not get more than the 2 main classes (with the second one at about 3 % >> only)). I admit that the dataset is skewed towards one single view but >> shouldn't I get more than two main class averages ? Is there a way of >> removing the trash and getting a reasonable number of views once for ever? >> Thanks for hints, Dieter >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Dieter Blaas, >> Max F. Perutz Laboratories >> Medical University of Vienna, >> Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), >> Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, >> A-1030 Vienna, Austria, >> Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, >> Fax: 0043 1 4277 9616, >> e-mail: [log in to unmask] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------