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Tag Archives: NGS

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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Short read improvements to MacVector 11.1

By Chris | Published: March 15, 2010

The ability to produce de novo assemblies of short read data was introduced into MacVector & Assembler 11 and we’ve enhanced this in MacVector 11.1. Now Assembler stores and visualises metadata on the type of short read you have and also stores and deals with the quality data stored in a better way. Mixing your [...]

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MacVector 11.1 is now released

By Chris | Published: February 10, 2010

MacVector 11.1 has just been released. You can check out the new features of this release on this blog post or a fuller list is available here. Existing customers can download and install it now. Although as usual you will be notified by MacVector’s online notifier in due course. We are pleased with this release [...]

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Next Generation sequencing formats

By Chris | Published: June 24, 2009

As is common with the lack of standards seen with most emerging technologies there are many different and competing types of sequencing file formats for storage of short read or next generation sequencing data. All these formats try to solve the same question of storing an almost unprecedented amount of sequence data in a useable [...]

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