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
(please [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
MacVector 11.1 is now released
MacVector 11.1 has just been released. You can check out the new features of this release on this blog post or a fuller list is available here.
Existing customers can download and install it now. Although as usual you will be notified by MacVector’s online notifier in due course.
We are pleased with this [...]
What’s New in MacVector 11.1?
As mentioned in the last few posts MacVector 11.1 is a release designed to consolidate and ‘tweak’ the many new features and changes that have been made over the last three years. In the main these changes are designed to simplify and speed up many common workflows as well as providing better integration with OS [...]
Graphical enhancements in MacVector 11.1
MacVector 11.1 has had many changes that are designed to simplify and speed up many common workflows as well as to providing better integration with OS X and improving performance. A great deal of these changes have been made to improve the graphical Map view.
Performance
MacVector’s Map View allows the features and results (e.g. restriction enzyme [...]
MacVector & Twitter
We’ve contemplated using Twitter in the past, but always hesitated to do so, as most ‘corporate’ users we see just use it as a pure marketing channel, and that’s quite boring! However, quite a few of us use Twitter personally and it’s a great channel to find out real information. With the release of [...]
