ACES: Introduction to CryoSPARC for Cryo-EM Data Processing in Collaboration with the Laboratory for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
Overview
Instructor(s): Dr. Michael Dickens, Dr. Gaya Yadav
Time: March 2026
Location: online using Zoom
Prerequisite(s): Current ACCESS ID, CryoSPARC Academic License ID
This course will cover aspects of using CryoSPARC on HPRC resources, including accessing CryoSPARC on the ACES cluster, followed by a training session using example image files.
A Registration button will appear here when registration has been opened.
Registration will open up on this webpage the week before the class.
You must first get an individual academic license id from https://cryosparc.com/download in order to launch CryoSPARC.
Course Materials
- Introduction to CryoSPARC for cryo-EM Data Processing (Fall 2025): PDF
Participation
During the training, attendees are expected to log in to an HPRC cluster using their own computer and complete the instructor-led examples and exercises.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Launch a CryoSPARC job from the ACES portal
- Learn about HPC resources and their limitations
- Navigate group data directories
- Complete a hands-on tutorial of image processing"
We gratefully acknowledge support from NSF award #1925764, CC* Team: SWEETER -- SouthWest Expertise in Expanding, Training, Education and Research, Texas A&M's High Performance Research Computing, and Texas A&M's Laboratory for Molecular Simulation.