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MacVector 12.5: Interface improvements and redesign

By Chris | Published: November 24, 2011

This is part of a series of posts about the shortly to be released MacVector 12.5. With each release of MacVector as well as adding new features we continually redesign and rewrite many existing parts of MacVector. This is done for a number of reasons. For example: to accommodate changes in OS X, where generally [...]

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MacVector 12.5: Creating reference assemblies with Bowtie

By Chris | Published: November 6, 2011

This is part of a series of posts about and leading up to the release of MacVector 12.5. With Assembler 12.5 our developers have come up with an affordable and straightforward solution for assembling and visualizing your NGS data. Generating sequencing data is cheaper than it has ever been, however, with this increase in data [...]

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MacVector 12.5: Get Assembler for half price!

By Chris | Published: October 31, 2011

Our latest version, MacVector 12.5, will be released on the 1st of December, 2011. There’s some great new features in this release with the addition of extra alignment algorithms, Muscle and T-coffee, to the Multiple Sequence Alignment analysis interface, as well as many interface enhancements and performance improvements. However, the most important new feature in [...]

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MacVector 12.5: Sequence Assembly made easy.

By Chris | Published: October 24, 2011

This is part of a series of posts about and leading up to the release of MacVector 12.5. Assembler has always made it easy to assemble your sequencing projects. It hides the complicated algorithms and provides a point and click interface to show you the results. With the release of MacVector 12.5 the range of [...]

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MacVector, Assembler and network licensing.

By Chris | Published: August 8, 2011

We recently changed the way that Assembler network licenses are shared out to make it easier for many users to share a single license. Previously an Assembler license was checked out whenever you loaded MacVector with Assembler.  However, now an Assembler license is only checked out when you start a new assembly project or open [...]

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Alignments in MacVector

By Kevin | Published: June 12, 2009

We get a lot of comments and questions from users on the various alignment functions in MacVector. They say there’s more than one way to skin a cat (not that I’ve done that – I have skinned a catfish, but I only know one way), and thats certainly true for alignments in MacVector. Each function [...]

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