About

LocScale-SURFER has been developed by Alok Bharadwaj, Lotte Veerbeek and Arjen Jakobi at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft.

SURFER is facilitated by number of open-source projects.

Projects used in SURFER

• OPM database: Orientations of Proteins in Membranes (OPM) database.
• Optuna: Hyperparameter optimisation. [MIT license]
• SCUNet: Semantic segmentation. [Apache 2.0]
• EMReady : 3-D SCUNet architecture. [GNU 3.0]

We acknowledge the use of computational resources of the DelftBlue supercomputer, provided by Delft High Performance Computing Centre.

References

If you found SURFER useful for your research, please consider citing it:

• A. Bharadwaj, L. Veerbeek, A.J. Jakobi: Interactive segmentation of membrane and membrane mimic densities in cryo-EM maps, BioRxiv 2026.02.25.707988 (2026) A preprint describing SURFER is in preparation.i ~