We’re hard at work with our MacVector 12 which will be out toward the end of the year. This is a little longer than our usual six months since MacVector 11.1 came out. However, this is a big release! There has been a rewrite of various interfaces with the aim of making them more accessible [...]
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Keeping your copy of MacVector up to date
Following our regular releases, which are every six months or so, we regularly release minor updates. These updates generally contain important bug fixes. So it is always important to ensure that you are using the most updated version of a major version.
The latest updates for the last three major releases are:
MacVector 11.1.2
MacVector 11.0.4
MacVector 10.6.0
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MacVector 11.1.2 just released
We’ve just released MacVector 11.1.2, which is a minor bug fix release.
The bug fix list includes
Translations now correctly honor the genetic code shown in that dialog rather than the global genetic code.
You can now suppress the automatic re-ordering of reads in the Align to Reference window by holding down the <option> key when clicking [...]
Graphics In MacVector: Exporting publication quality graphics.
This article is the first in a series of “howtos” resulting from the 2010 survey results.
It may not be at the cutting edge of sequence analysis but sooner or later most users of such apps are going to have to produce a graphic of their work, whether that is a plasmid map, a tree, an [...]
Post-survey feedback!
We’ve just finished going through the survey results. We’re very pleased with the amount and quality of feedback that you gave us. There’s some excellent ideas in there, that you’ll start seeing with the next release (MacVector 12 is out later this year). So once again thanks a lot to all who spent time to [...]
ASM2010
We had a great time at the ASM2010 in San Diego this year. San Diego is a great town, and even better with a bunch of scientists gathering in the bars and restaurants! Many great people stopped by the booth. Both old MacVector users, new ones, and people just interested in our software. Some of the [...]
MacVector at ASM 2010
The MacVector team will be attending the ASM 2010 meeting in San Diego. If you are attending then please do drop by booth 240 (near the laptop lounge) to say hello! If you are an user, then please do come and tell us what you think. Even if you think it is perfect (come top [...]
Hidden labels in MacVector 11.1?
We made a whole slew of graphical enhancements to MacVector 11.1. Most of these were intended to increase the performance for viewing the graphical map of very large sequences.
One of these hides the labels of features when you are showing a heavily annotated sequence. However, in hindsight we set the default value for this [...]
Short read improvements to MacVector 11.1
The ability to produce de novo assemblies of short read data was introduced into MacVector & Assembler 11 and we’ve enhanced this in MacVector 11.1. Now Assembler stores and visualises metadata on the type of short read you have and also stores and deals with the quality data stored in a better way.
Mixing your reads
Currently [...]
