RELION (for REgularised LIkelihood OptimisatioN) is a stand-alone computer program for Maximum A Posteriori refinement of (multiple) 3D reconstructions or 2D class averages in cryo-electron microscopy.

RELION provides a GUI, several command-line tools in parallel (MPI) and serial versions as well as a C++ API.

relion-bin provides the serial command-line tools