By Chris | Published:
July 20, 2010
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 [...]
Also posted in Techniques | Tagged graphics |
By Chris | Published:
June 27, 2010
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 [...]
Also posted in Releases | Tagged macvector |
By Chris | Published:
June 10, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in General | Tagged asmgm |
By Chris | Published:
May 15, 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 [...]
By Chris | Published:
April 23, 2010
The volcanic ash cloud covering most of Europe is a timely reminder of just how powerful nature is. With the disruption to air travel it’s also a great reminder of just how most communications can be done without meeting face to face. Whereas it is always nice to meet with MacVector users, any such [...]
By Chris | Published:
April 19, 2010
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 [...]
Also posted in Releases | Tagged map view |
By Chris | Published:
February 9, 2010
I’m configuring access from the Wordpress blog to cross post to the MacVector forums. So I thought it was a good opportunity to remind you about our forums. We have a fairly quiet but active community on our forums. They’ve been running since 2007 and there’s a lot of useful tips and topics on [...]
By Chris | Published:
January 5, 2010
So once again we find ourselves on a cold January day looking back at the year that has just been, and towards to the year that will be.
We’ve been very pleased that during 2009 we’ve had a record number of users contacting us with new ideas, and feedback on how MacVector works for them. Some [...]
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By Chris | Published:
December 24, 2009
Happy holidays to all users of MacVector (and everybody else!). We hope that 2009 has been a year of great experiments and positive result, and that MacVector has helped to make your life in the lab as productive and as easy as it could have been. Here’s to more success in your research, with [...]