RELION

RELION (REgularised LIkelihood OptimisatioN) is a stand-alone computer program for the refinement of 3D reconstructions or 2D class averages in electron cryo-microscopy. 

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

RELION is available on the Owens cluster. The versions currently available at OSC are:

Version Owens Pitzer Ascend Note
2.0 X*      
3.0.4 X X    
3.1 X* X*    
3.1-gpu X X   Compatible with CUDA 10.2 or later
3.1.3   X   Compatible with CUDA 10.2 or later
4.0b   X   Compatible with CUDA 10.2 or later
4.0.1     X Compatible with CUDA 11.8 or later
* Current Default Version

You can use module spider relion2 for version 2.0 or module spider relion for version 3 to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.

Available third-party packages

RELION CTFFIND MotionCor2 GCTF ResMap Unblur & Summovie
4.0b 4.1.14 1.4.4 1.18 1.1.4 1.0.2
4.0.1 4.1.14 1.4.5 1.18 1.1.4 1.0.2

Access

RELION is available to all OSC users.

Publisher/Vendor/Repository and License Type

MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, Open source

Usage

Usage on Owens

Set-up

To set up the environment for RELION on the Owens cluster, use the command:

module load relion2/version

or 

module load relion/version

where version is chosen from the available versions (omitting the version will load the default version).

Usage on Pitzer

Set-up

To set up the environment for RELION on the Pitzer cluster, use the command:

module load relion/version

where version is chosen from the available versions (omitting the version will load the default version).

Further Reading

Supercomputer: