Thank you for your reply.
I binned the micrographs by Patch Motion Cor Job, then the Topaz Extract works, but I would like to downsample more, such as bin8, bin16, but the CS Patch Motion Cor F-crop option only provides as many as bin4, if you know how can I downsample more in CS?
This shouldn’t be necessary to run Topaz, as Topaz downsamples on the fly. Have you tried adjusting the downsampling factor in Topaz? What settings are you using?
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I am taking this thread to ask about the helical processing questions that I have posted 2 months ago ? I think a separate thread is made but have not received any response. Can you help.
Hi @CleoShenyou do not need to downsample your micrographs for Topaz. This happens automatically during preprocessing in Topaz, and is controlled by the downsampling factor that you set in Topaz train. What settings are you using for Topaz train/extract?
Also can you post the error you are seeing in Topaz extract? If you are trying to run Topaz extract on a lot of micrographs (>5k), then you will need to split into smaller groups for Topaz extract
I set downsample4 at the beginning, but the jobs are killed multiple times (I assume it’s because of the big memory request); then I tested downsampling by patch motion cor first, then the Topaz extra works.
thanks - by settings I mean a screenshot of the GUI panel showing exactly what settings you used - downsampling factor, number of threads, etc (because what you posted only has the preprocess command)… it does say you are using 8 workers, so if you are running out memory you might try reducing that (using e.g. 1 or 2 workers, and one or two threads, instead of 8 and 8 which is the default
You have 20 threads listed here, with 8 cpus - on my system that would result in system lockup, because it will spawn a lot of processes at once. I would try with 2 and 2 and see if that helps.
Not sure. ‘Subprocess exited with status 1’ means that the topaz command failed, but does not say how. Try running using CPUs only. Or try making the same command outside of cryosparc (but in the same environment) and seeing what the actual error is.
Some contributors to this topic have mentioned alternatives to additional, explicit down-sampling. Nevertheless, should the need arise, a recent cryoSPARC patch adds support for additional down-sampling ratios.