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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #25 – Creating Features from Analysis Results

By Kevin | Published: January 8, 2013

In my last post I described how you can quickly create and annotate features onto a DNA sequence, although the post was primarily aimed at users who are new to MacVector. In this post I’ll take a look at how you can quickly and easily annotate a DNA sequence with features based on the results [...]

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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #24 – Creating Features

By Kevin | Published: December 20, 2012

This is a tip primarily aimed at new users of MacVector, but may be of interest to anyone who wants better understand the way MacVector handles features. MacVector can create wonderfully detailed graphical maps of a sequence, showing all the points of interest, restriction sites, open reading frames etc. However, each item to be displayed [...]

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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #23 – Viewing Publications

By Kevin | Published: December 13, 2012

If you ever download sequences from Entrez, or open a GenBank formatted sequence file, you will often see PUBMED entries in the Annotations tab with blue colored numeric IDs; The blue color indicates that this is a link that you can use to retrieve an abstract of the publications. If you double-click on the PUBMED [...]

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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #15 – Getting GenBank/Entrez Sequences Into MacVector

By Kevin | Published: September 28, 2012

MacVector does have a built-in Entrez browser that lets you search the online Entrez GenBank database using keywords and retrieve matching sequences either To Disk or as sequence windows (To Desktop) without needing to leave MacVector. You can access this via the Database | Internet Entrez Search… menu item. I’m not going to discuss how [...]

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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #12 – Displaying Segmented Features

By Kevin | Published: September 13, 2012

While most features you might encounter in DNA files have a simple start and stop location on the sequence, some features are segmented. For example, the coding sequence of a protein encoding reading frame containing introns is represented by a segmented CDS feature on the genomic DNA. MacVector has always understood that the individual segments [...]

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MacVector 12: Drag and Drop annotation of your sequences

By Chris | Published: July 6, 2011

This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 If you click and drag a result from a results map to a sequence window it will be annotated as a feature. For example dragging a primer from a primer results map will annotate that primer as [...]

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MacVector 12: Annotating the sequence in the Editor View.

By Chris | Published: March 11, 2011

This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 In the last survey a popular request was to be able to change the case, alter the colour, or otherwise being able to annotate sequence directly in the Editor view. You’ve been able to use the Map [...]

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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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