MacVector 18.7: Generating custom Codon Usage Tables (CUT) from your own sequences.

Our latest release, MacVector 18.7, has a new Codon Usage Table viewer. You can use this to generate your own codon usage table (CUT or .bias) files. You can use codon usage tables to optimize codon usage of CDS features for enhanced expression in a different organism. They can also be used in the Nucleic Acid Toolbox to predict protein coding […]

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MacVector 18.7: Long-Read Reference Alignments using minimap2

Our latest release, MacVector 18.7, sees the addition of Minimap2 to Assembler’s sequencing toolkit. So if you have the Assembler module, you can now map noisy long-read data from Pacific Biosciences or Oxford Nanopore to one or more genomes. Minimap2 is a reference assembler similar to Bowtie2. But whereas Bowtie2 excels at mapping “short reads” (500nt or less) to […]

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MacVector 18.7 has just been released.

MacVector 18.7 has just been released. If you are eligible for this release you will be prompted to upgrade, otherwise go to MACVECTOR | CHECK FOR UPDATES… and follow the prompts to be automatically upgraded. If your license is not eligible then why not upgrade? Overview MacVector 18.7 introduces a History tab to track the […]

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