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MacVector 12.7 is now out.

By Chris | Published: November 19, 2012

We’re pleased to announce that MacVector 12.7 has just been released. The most exciting new feature is the Cloning Clipboard. We’ve had a lot of user requests over the past few years for help with designing cloning operations and the user feedback we had during the beta testing of MacVector 12.7 makes us think we’ve [...]

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MacVector 12.7 preview release

By Chris | Published: October 29, 2012

Our next release is MacVector 12.7 and it will be out very soon. However, if don’t want to wait then you can download a preview before the real release in November. MacVector 12.7 has a new Cloning Clipboard tool that dramatically simplifies the creation of new DNA constructs. The new functionality not only lets you [...]

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MacVector 12.7: Subcloning using the Cloning Clipboard

By Chris | Published: October 12, 2012

Cloning on MacVector has always been an easy procedure. Every digestion places a fragment on the cloning clipboard which then allows you to ligate that fragment into a vector. However, up to now it’s been limited to a single fragment. With MacVector 12.7 this limitation has now gone with the new Cloning Clipboard. The Cloning [...]

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Multisite Gateway cloning using the Cloning Clipboard

By Chris | Published: September 25, 2012

With the introduction of the Cloning Clipboard in MacVector 12.7 (coming soon) both single step and Multisite Gateway cloning can be easily designed, replicated and documented. The Cloning Clipboard allows you to assemble fragments by dragging compatible ends of digested fragments together to form new fragments. Every digest operation in a sequence window will place [...]

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Upgrade or purchase a new license in August 2012 and receive a 10% discount.

By Chris | Published: August 6, 2012

To celebrate the recent release of MacVector 12.6 and the release of Mountain Lion we are offering a 10% discount on all new licenses and upgrades throughout August. Here are some of the new features in MacVector 12.6. If you like what you see and are interested in purchasing a license, or upgrading an existing [...]

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MacVector 12.6 and Mountain Lion

By Chris | Published: July 31, 2012

The eagerly awaited Mountain Lion was released last week in the App Store. We’ve conducted initial testing with MacVector 12.6 on Mountain Lion. Our testing has found only a single fairly minor issue concerned with installation. So far there are no issues with any day to day functionality. The downloadable disk image does not automatically [...]

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MacVector 12.6: Coming soon..

By Chris | Published: May 22, 2012

Our upcoming release, MacVector 12.6, has just entered beta testing. As usual we’ve added a mixture of new features as well as improvements to existing tools. One tool that we are excited about is a realtime primer design tool. This allows you to manipulate your primer and see secondary structure and other useful oligo statistics [...]

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MacVector 12.5 new features

By Chris | Published: October 8, 2011

This is the first in a series of posts about and leading up to the release of MacVector 12.5. MacVector 12.5 will be released shortly. As long as testing shows up no obstacles it will be soon entering the external beta stage. If you want to participate in the beta program please do email support. [...]

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MacVector 12.0.6

By Chris | Published: September 28, 2011

MacVector 12.0.6 was released a few days ago. This has a few small but significant bug fixes. If you are running MacVector 12 it’s a recommended upgrade. Tweet

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MacVector 12.0.5 is out

By Chris | Published: August 17, 2011

MacVector 12.0.5 is a cumulative patch release that fixes a few bugs in MacVector 12.0.4 and includes all the bug fixes since 12.0 was released. If you have a current maintenance contract with MacVector (as of Dec 1st 2010), you can download the updater for MacVector 12.0.5. Tweet

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