Showing features as bases or a translation in a plasmid map

Everybody has different tastes and giving everybody identical plasmid maps is unfair! So MacVector is designed to be as flexible as possible to allow you to make your maps look like YOU want then to look. In this theme was a recent change where appropriate features can be shown as residues when there is sufficient […]

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Label customisation using metatags in the Map View

MacVector has always given the user great control in being able to customise the map’s appearance. By default the label will show the full text description of a feature and all its qualifiers (see the first metatag in the list below). However, the label can contain whatever text you want it to display. Obviously you […]

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Hidden labels in MacVector 11.1?

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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