Show or hide the RE Picker and the Graphics Palette from the toolbar

By Chris | Published: February 8, 2019

MacVector 17’s brand new Restriction Enzyme Picker gives you an interactive way to quickly show what enzymes will digest your sequence. You can dynamically filter what sites are displayed. For example to show just 3’ overhang cutters or use other criteria. What’s more is that you can take a set of cut sites from one […]

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How to find one-out Restriction Sites that will change a protein coding sequence

By Chris | Published: January 21, 2019

If you are interested in making changes to a protein sequence, it is often useful to make a change to the coding DNA that will create a restriction enzyme site. Conversely, there may be times that you would like to create a site without affecting a protein coding region. You can accomplish this using the […]

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Making restriction enzyme cloning easier with MacVector 17’s Restriction Enzyme Picker.

By Chris | Published: December 6, 2018

MacVector 17’s brand new Restriction Enzyme Picker is a new floating tool for selecting and filtering Restriction Enzymes to simplify the identification of useful enzyme cut sites. It initially presents you with a list of all available sites in a sequence. However, you can filter on many attributes, such as number of cuts, 5’ or […]

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MacVector’s Scan For Missing Features tool makes beautiful plasmid maps easy!

By Chris | Published: November 15, 2017

Scan for.. Missing Features: Sequences are automatically scanned and missing features displayed. A simple right-click converts them to a permanent feature. Even blank sequences will be displayed fully annotated with common features. You can even add your own proprietary features. Tweet

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What can MacVector do for your lab?

By Chris | Published: September 12, 2017

Here’s an overview of what MacVector can do for you! Comparing sequences Whatever alignment your sequence needs, MacVector has the right tool. CRISPR Indel Analysis: Identify insertions and deletions following CRISPR editing of a target. Multiple sequence alignment of protein or DNA sequences using CLustalW/Muscle or T-Coffee and produce publication quality alignments. Sequence assembly of […]

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How to check the orientation of a ligated insert using MacVector’s Restriction Digest and Agarose Gel tools.

By Chris | Published: August 18, 2017

How to check the orientation of a ligated insert using MacVector’s Restriction Digest and Agarose Gel tools. Tweet

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Clone construction using Digest/Ligate rather than Copy/Paste

By Chris | Published: July 31, 2017

We’ve previously looked at using Edit | Copy and Edit | Paste to quickly and simply create new constructs using Restriction Enzyme sites. Here’s an alternative approach, using the Digest and Ligate buttons and the Cloning Clipboard. The sequence window Map tab has two buttons called Digest and Ligate. These work in a very similar […]

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Tooltips in MacVector: restriction sites, features and reference assemblies

By Chris | Published: July 14, 2017

Every aspect of MacVector is designed to help you visualise and see information about your sequence and its annotation. Most views have tooltips that display information about restrictions sites, genes, CDS, SNPs, INDELS and much more. Tweet

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Clone construction using Digest/Ligate rather than Copy/Paste

By Chris | Published: April 24, 2017

In previous post we looked at using Edit | Copy and Edit | Paste to quickly and simply create new constructs using Restriction Enzyme sites. This post will look at an alternative approach, using the Digest and Ligate buttons and the Cloning Clipboard. The sequence window Map tab has two buttons called Digest and Ligate. […]

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Simple but accurate restriction enzyme based clone construction using Copy and Paste

By Chris | Published: April 24, 2017

The quickest and simplest way to create restriction enzyme generated constructs in MacVector is to use Edit | Copy and Edit | Paste. The strategy to use is identical to copying a paragraph from one Microsoft Word document to insert into a second document. i.e. Select the restriction enzymes flanking the source fragment in either […]

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