Extended Data Fig. 5: Probability analysis of silicage projections.
From: Self-assembly of highly symmetrical, ultrasmall inorganic cages directed by surfactant micelles
a, Orientation dependence of silicage projections. Right panel, the nine different silicage projections identified by 3D reconstruction (Fig. 3) are shown. Left panel, these orientations are manually mapped onto the surface of a dodecahedron. The orientations corresponding to different projections are assigned different colours. b, Probability analysis for different silicage projections. The probability of imaging a particular projection by electron microscopy is estimated by dividing that subset of the surface area of a sphere that contains the orientations corresponding to a specific projection, by the total surface area of the sphere. c, Experimental probability of imaging different silicage projections. The probability of imaging each projection is calculated by dividing the number of single-particle images assigned to a specific silicage projection via 3D reconstruction, by the overall number of silicage single-particle images. The error bars in c are standard deviations calculated from three projection distributions, which were obtained from three independent reconstruction runs using different sets of single-particle images.
