Helical particles shifting in one direction?

Hello all,

Just a quick question - I’m noticing in some cases that during helical refinement with a candidate symmetry imposed, the refinement seems to shift the particles heavily to one side of the meridian, resulting in a map that is ‘skewed’ to one side of the Z axis.

J1004_shift_distribution_iteration_011
J1004_fsc_iteration_011_after_fsc_mask_auto_tightening

I feel like I’m missing something obvious here - would anyone be able to comment on why this might be happening? I can provide more details on the jobs and pre-processing as required.

Thanks!

Charlie

Hi @charliebe2,

Thanks for the report; I have followed up via DM with some questions to help us diagnose

Best,
Michael

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