MacVector talk » Uncategorized http://macvector.com/blog General musings from the MacVector team about sequence analysis, molecular biology, the Mac in general and of course your favorite sequence analysis app for the Mac! Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:30:43 +0000 en hourly 1 MacVector on OS X 10.7 Lion http://macvector.com/blog/2011/07/macvector-on-os-x-10-7-lion/ http://macvector.com/blog/2011/07/macvector-on-os-x-10-7-lion/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:55:58 +0000 Chris http://macvector.com/blog/?p=597 Lion was released through the App Store earlier today.

Although MacVector has not gone through a full round of testing, our initial tests on development builds and the released version shows that there are no bugs, or at least no obvious ones!

Here’s the coolest feature of Lion, Mission Control.

Lion

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]]> http://macvector.com/blog/2011/07/macvector-on-os-x-10-7-lion/feed/ 0 New, personal, single-machine licenses now available http://macvector.com/blog/2011/04/new-personal-single-machine-licenses-now-available/ http://macvector.com/blog/2011/04/new-personal-single-machine-licenses-now-available/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:15:23 +0000 Rosemary http://macvector.com/blog/?p=563 We would like to announce a new license type that is now available – a personal license. This license is perfect for the user who only needs MacVector on one computer. It is perpetual (lifetime), will be node-locked to run only on one machine, and is less than half the cost of a standard license. To refresh your memory, standard licenses with the same serial number can be installed on as many machines as you need, but if the machines are on a local network, they will only run one at a time. In the future, if you wish to be able to use the license on more than one machine, you can upgrade it to a standard license. You may also purchase more than one personal licenses, if you want each computer to have it’s own copy of MacVector. If you would like more details, please contact your regional account manager or email sales@macvector.com.

]]> http://macvector.com/blog/2011/04/new-personal-single-machine-licenses-now-available/feed/ 0 MacVector12: Forwards (and backwards!) compatibility of MacVector files http://macvector.com/blog/2011/01/macvector12-forwards-and-backwards-compatibility-of-macvector-files/ http://macvector.com/blog/2011/01/macvector12-forwards-and-backwards-compatibility-of-macvector-files/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:33:41 +0000 Chris http://macvector.com/blog/?p=425 MacVector is very good at forward compatibility with sequence files. We do strive to ensure that all versions of MacVector will open files created by earlier versions. In fact MacVector 12 will still open files created by the very first version of MacVector!

Backwards compatibility is more complicated as due to our policy of continuous improvement later versions of MacVector have introduced new functions that have required modifications to the file format. For example there were significant changes to incorporate the Genbank features table changes introduced in MacVector 10. Upon opening such a file an older version of MacVector will give a warning message. However, all biological data will be preserved. If you then save that file using the older version of MacVector it will revert to the older file format.

With the MacVector 12 release there have been more extensive changes to the format than any other recent release. If you have run MacVector 12 then go back to using MacVector 11.1 or earlier, then the first time you open a file, whether it has been opened with MacVector 12 or not, you will see the following warning dialogue.

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This is actually a warning that the preferences file has incompatible settings (MacVector 12 wrote these). It’s a once only error and can be safely ignored.

Additionally if you do open a sequence file with MacVector 11.1 or 11.0 that has been saved with MacVector 12 then you will see further warnings. Since MacVector 10.6 all versions should deal with incompatibilities safely and although you might see changes in the graphical appearance and also minor changes in the features, you will not lose any biological data at all.

]]> http://macvector.com/blog/2011/01/macvector12-forwards-and-backwards-compatibility-of-macvector-files/feed/ 0 Free MacVector Teaching licenses available http://macvector.com/blog/2009/07/free-macvector-teaching-licenses-available/ http://macvector.com/blog/2009/07/free-macvector-teaching-licenses-available/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:25:07 +0000 Rosemary http://macvector.com/blog/?p=102 Did you know that you are eligible for teaching licenses as long as you hold an active, up-to-date license? Recently, we had a whole class of students download our 30 day trial on the same day. Maybe the instructor did not hold a current license of MacVector, but if he/she did, they could have contacted us and gotten unlimited access to the program for the length of the course. All we need is the course name and number, start and stop dates of the course, and the approximate # of machines MacVector will be loaded on to. MacVector is an excellent, and very practical tool that can be used in teaching a Molecular Biology course. So if you hold a current MacVector license and are in the process of developing lesson plans for the courses you will be teaching next semester, contact sales@macvector.com for more details.

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