How to display translations in the sequence editor

For those of you who like to type in DNA sequences, or do manual editing to the sequences, it’s really useful to be able to see the translations above or below the sequence residues in the Editor tab of the single sequence window. If you are a long term user, you’ll be familiar with the […]

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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #10 – Displaying Amino Acids As Triple Letter Codes In Translations

Following on from my last post about turning on translations in the sequence Editor, I thought I should point out how to display amino acid translations using the 3-letter code rather than the default single-letter code. I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time remembering that “W” is the single-letter IUPAC code […]

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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #9 – Showing Translations In The DNA Sequence Editor

If you have used MacVector for many years, you’ll remember the days when the single sequence editor was THE main way you interacted with MacVector. When MacVector 10 was introduced back in 2007, the Editor became just one tab in the single sequence window along with Map, Features and Annotations tabs, all of which at […]

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MacVector 12: Annotating the sequence in the Editor View.

This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 In the last survey a popular request was to be able to change the case, alter the colour, or otherwise being able to annotate sequence directly in the Editor view. You’ve been able to use the Map […]

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Displaying translations alongside your DNA sequence

There’s a few ways to display an amino acid translation in the same window as your DNA or RNA sequence. (1) You can show either three or six frame translations directly in the editor. To do so simply press and hold down the STRANDS toolbar button. You’ll see the following menu and be able to […]

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