Overview

Instructor(s): Dr. Michael Dickens, Dr. Gaya Yadav

Time: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 — 1:30PM-4:00PM CT

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.

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Registration will open up on this webpage the week before the class.

Course Materials

• Introduction to CryoSPARC for cryo-EM Data Processing (Fall 2025): PDF

Previous Semester Materials

• Introduction to CryoSPARC for cryo-EM Data Processing (Fall 2024): PDF
• Introduction to CryoSPARC for cryo-EM Data Processing (Spring 2024): PDF
• Introduction to CryoSPARC for cryo-EM Data Processing (Fall 2023): PDF
• Introduction to CryoSPARC for cryo-EM Data Processing (Spring 2023): PDF
• Introduction to CryoSPARC for cryo-EM Data Processing BCRC (Spring 2023): PDF

Participation

Attendees will log in to the cluster during the training session in order to follow examples and complete exercises with the instructor's guidance.

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"

You must first get an individual academic license id from https://cryosparc.com/download in order to launch CryoSPARC.

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.