After frame alignment and ctf estimation, unaligned image and non-dose-weighted image are not useful but take up a full mrc file space. This reduces its footprint by shrinking unaligned image to 8x8 statistically correct array and make aligned image a soft link.
Author Name: Anchi Cheng (@anchi2c) Original Redmine Issue: 9353, https://emg.nysbc.org/redmine/issues/9353 Original Date: 2020-08-31
After frame alignment and ctf estimation, unaligned image and non-dose-weighted image are not useful but take up a full mrc file space. This reduces its footprint by shrinking unaligned image to 8x8 statistically correct array and make aligned image a soft link.