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 This repository contains the code used to analyse the submissions for the [Inaugrural Flatirion Cryo-EM Heteorgeneity Challenge](https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/center-for-computational-biology/structural-and-molecular-biophysics-collaboration/heterogeneity-in-cryo-electron-microscopy/).
 
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 We are also working on pipelines to simplify the exentension of the code with new metrics or functionalities, stay tuned!
 
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 # Acknowledgements
 * Miro A. Astore, Geoffrey Woollard, David Silva-Sánchez, Wenda Zhao, Khanh Dao Duc, Nikolaus Grigorieff, Pilar Cossio, and Sonya M. Hanson. "The Inaugural Flatiron Institute Cryo-EM Heterogeneity Community Challenge". 9 June 2023. DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/8H6FZ
 * [David Herreros](https://github.com/DavidHerreros) for testing and CI and debugging in this repo