Designing and documenting cloning strategies

Designing cloning strategies is easy with the Cloning Clipboard. You can perform quite complex ligations by simply dragging compatible ends together. However, when you open this construct a year later, you don’t want to have to look back in your lab book to know how you generated it. Neither do you need to!

MacVector fully documents the cloning strategy that you used. Every single ligation is documented as a FRAG feature which is annotated to the target sequence. This is regardless of whether you used COPY | PASTE for a single fragment, or whether you ligated multiple fragments on the Cloning Clipboard and ligated that fragment into a cloning vector.

As well as the source of the fragment and timestamp, the enzymes used to digest the fragment, and any modification of the overhang are also recorded. So if you Klenow treat a fragment to remove an overhang, that would be documented in the FRAG feature for that fragment.

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All FRAG features from previous ligations are preserved in new ligations. So if you joined three fragments together on the Cloning Clipboard, then ligated those fused fragments into a vector you would have four FRAG features documenting exactly what you did.

By default FRAG features are hidden, but you can easily make them visible to visualise the history of a construct by selecting the FRAG feature in the Graphics Palette and making them visible.

Read more about documenting cloning workflows.

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