MotorBench: A Cryo-Electron Tomography Dataset of Bacterial Flagellar Motors for Testing Detection Algorithms Article Swipe
Charles Owens
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Bryan S. Morse
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Andrew J Darley
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T. Hart
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Rachel Webb
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Stefano Maggi
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Grant J. Jensen
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Matthew Ward
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Walter Reade
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Mohammed Kaplan
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Gus L. W. Hart
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.23.650258
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· 2025
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.23.650258
Understanding bacterial nanomachines like flagellar motors, which are crucial for pathogenic bacteria motility, is vital for microbiological and therapeutic research. Cryogenic electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables visualization of these structures within cells at near-native conditions. But manual identification remains challenging due to low contrast, limited resolution, and crowded in vivo environments. To address this, we introduce MotorBench, an expert-annotated dataset of bacterial flagellar motors that has been curated as part of a Kaggle competition BYU - Locating Bacterial Flagellar Motors 2025 , engaging data scientists globally to create automated detection algorithms. MotorBench and its accompanying tools are intended to serve as a benchmark for evaluating and comparing future algorithms in automated cryo-ET analysis.
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