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Category Archives: Releases

MacVector 12.0.2 has just been released

By Chris | Published: March 3, 2011

Download it here. This contains a few bugs fixes that surfaced after the 12.0.1 release. Tweet

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MacVector 12: Ensuring your license is up to date

By Chris | Published: February 8, 2011

MacVector 12 is now officially released (it’s been a preview release for the past month). Before updating your copy make sure that you have entered your latest license details (you will have been emailed these when you last renewed your maintenance). Unless you have renewed in the last month you will need to have entered [...]

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MacVector 12: New features for Click Cloning and Restriction Enzyme analysis

By Chris | Published: January 26, 2011

This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 In MacVector 12 designing your construct with Click Cloning has never been easier. There’s a stack of new features to enhance restriction mapping and choosing how to get that fragment into your cloning vector. Unique Restriction sites [...]

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MacVector 12: Creating features from results

By Chris | Published: January 17, 2011

This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 MacVector has always allowed you to generate a large amount of information about your sequence. However, it’s not always been easy to create Genbank compatible annotations back to your sequence. With MacVector 12 we’ve added a feature [...]

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Preview release of MacVector 12

By Chris | Published: January 7, 2011

MacVector 12.0 is almost ready for release and you can download a preview release here. The full release will be out shortly. There’s a lot of great new features in MacVector 12. Virtual Cloning is much easier with auto detection of compatible sites. The whole interface has been reworked with a graphical overview of your [...]

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New features in the upcoming MacVector 12 release.

By Chris | Published: August 31, 2010

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

By Chris | Published: August 29, 2010

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 [...]

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MacVector 11.1.2 just released

By Chris | Published: July 28, 2010

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 [...]

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Post-survey feedback!

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 [...]

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Hidden labels in MacVector 11.1?

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 [...]

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