particle-picker

cryo-EMMCP servercommunity

Template-free particle picking with a denoising front-end for low signal-to-noise micrographs. Emits coordinate star files and per-pick confidence.

tool call

pick_particles

license

MIT

runtime

python 3.11

stars

★ 0

// emskills.config.json

"skills": ["particle-picker"]

$ npx emskills add particle-picker

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Test runs are served by the registry's own sandbox, executed by a model grounded in this SKILL.md — a dry run of the procedure, not the vendor's production code.

Documentation

This skill exposes the call pick_particles, running on python 3.11. Install it in your agent with the config below, or exercise it from here — the test panel above sends a real request to the endpoint and prints every step.

1 — install in an agent host (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "particle-picker": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://emskills.org/api/public/mcp/particle-picker"
    }
  }
}

2 — run it locally through the emskills CLI

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "particle-picker": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "emskills",
        "run",
        "particle-picker"
      ]
    }
  }
}

3 — call pick_particles directly with curl

curl -s https://emskills.org/api/public/mcp/particle-picker \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call",
       "params":{"name":"pick_particles","arguments":{"input":"./dataset.mrc"}}}'

4 — example arguments for the test panel

{
  "input": "./dataset.mrc",
  "pixel_size_nm": 0.86
}

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