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Season’s greetings from the MacVector team

By Chris | Published: December 21, 2012

There is no time more fitting to say “Thank You” and to wish you a Happy Holiday Season and a New Year full of health, happiness, and great results from your research. Make sure you put down that pipette and relax , and if you’ve not updated to MacVector 12.7, make sure you take time [...]

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MacVector 12.6 and Mountain Lion

By Chris | Published: July 31, 2012

The eagerly awaited Mountain Lion was released last week in the App Store. We’ve conducted initial testing with MacVector 12.6 on Mountain Lion. Our testing has found only a single fairly minor issue concerned with installation. So far there are no issues with any day to day functionality. The downloadable disk image does not automatically [...]

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Importing features from a Genome Browser

By Chris | Published: May 14, 2012

One of the new features in MacVector 12.6 is the ability to annotate sequences based on the features stored in GFF/BED/GFT files that many Genome Browsers will export data as. MacVector 12.6 will annotate an empty or annotated sequence with the features stored within these files. BED, GFF, GTF, and GFF3 formats GFF, GTF, GFF3 [...]

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ASM2012: San Francisco

By Chris | Published: May 14, 2012

We’ll be at the 112th ASM meeting in San Francisco this year from June 16 – 19, 2012. Come visit us if you are at the show. Our booth at the ASM will be 936. We’ll be demoing MacVector 12.6 which will be released about that date. You’ll also be able to pick up demo [...]

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Running old versions of MacVector on Lion.

By Chris | Published: January 23, 2012

Only MacVector 9.5 and later versions will run on OS X 7 Lion. Apple started transitioning their processor architecture from PowerPC (PPC) to Intel’s x86 in 2006. The Macbook Pro and the iMac being the first Intel Macs. When they did so they gave Xcode (the OSX development environment) the ability to create Universal Binary [...]

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…back to work!

By Chris | Published: January 3, 2012

Getting back to the lab after the end of the year break is always a shock! You’ve might have been popping into the lab over the vacation to maintain your experiments, but now you need to get those experiments moving again and start getting the results in. So after you’ve chatted about the holidays with [...]

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Happy holidays to all our users and friends

By Chris | Published: December 22, 2011

At the end of 2011 we’d like to say thank you for your business and continued trust in us. MacVector, Inc. is about to celebrate its 5 year anniversary and it remains our mission to keep MacVector the number one sequence analysis application for the Mac. We try to listen to our customers and react [...]

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Steve Jobs RIP

By Chris | Published: October 6, 2011

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MacVector 10.6 and earlier and Lion

By Chris | Published: September 19, 2011

If you have upgraded to Lion and you’re running MacVector 10 to 10.6 (earlier versions will not run) then anytime MacVector displays an error message it will crash. MacVector 10.6 was developed before even Snow Leopard was released and is quite long in the tooth now. Why not take this opportunity to upgrade to MacVector [...]

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Are you teaching a Molecular Biology Course this year?

By Rosemary | Published: August 30, 2011

Many MacVector users don’t realize that we offer FREE licenses for teaching purposes. If you or your lab owns a license of MacVector 12 with a current maintenance contract, you are eligible. If you are teaching a course this year and are in the process of preparing your course content, consider using MacVector as a [...]

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