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Graphics In MacVector: Exporting publication quality graphics.

By Chris | Published: July 20, 2010

This article is the first in a series of “howtos” resulting from the 2010 survey results. It may not be at the cutting edge of sequence analysis but sooner or later most users of such apps are going to have to produce a graphic of their work, whether that is a plasmid map, a tree, [...]

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Graphical enhancements in MacVector 11.1

By Chris | Published: February 2, 2010

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. [...]

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Auto Annotation in MacVector 11

By Kevin | Published: October 7, 2009

Have you ever got that plasmid back from the sequencing facility as a bare sequence with no annotations? Or downloaded that vector from from the vendors site to find its only available in a fasta format with no features? Or maybe your collaborators send you poorly annotated sequences. Maybe your lab-mate uses MacVector but insists [...]

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How to save a graphical Map.

By Chris | Published: April 24, 2009

With earlier versions of MacVector the graphical Map was treated as a separate object to the actual sequence, and you could save it directly as a graphic file (PICT) from the Map window. However, the graphical map changed substantially with MacVector 9.5 and even more in 10.0, and now you need a different way to [...]

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