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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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MacVector and Assembler 12.5 are released

By Chris | Published: December 13, 2011

MacVector 12.5 was released yesterday. A few days late but we’d always prefer to wait rather than release with annoying bugs. This is a major release with a lot of new features. Many parts of MacVector have been substantially rewritten both to keep up with OS X as well as many dialogs that have been [...]

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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: New features for Click Cloning and Restriction Enzyme analysis

By Chris | Published: January 26, 2011

This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 In MacVector 12 designing your construct with Click Cloning has never been easier. There’s a stack of new features to enhance restriction mapping and choosing how to get that fragment into your cloning vector. Unique Restriction sites [...]

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MacVector12: Forwards (and backwards!) compatibility of MacVector files

By Chris | Published: January 13, 2011

MacVector is very good at forward compatibility with sequence files. We do strive to ensure that all versions of MacVector will open files created by earlier versions. In fact MacVector 12 will still open files created by the very first version of MacVector! Backwards compatibility is more complicated as due to our policy of continuous [...]

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New features in the upcoming MacVector 12 release.

By Chris | Published: August 31, 2010

We’re hard at work with our MacVector 12 which will be out toward the end of the year. This is a little longer than our usual six months since MacVector 11.1 came out. However, this is a big release! There has been a rewrite of various interfaces with the aim of making them more accessible [...]

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What’s New in MacVector 11.1?

By Chris | Published: February 5, 2010

As mentioned in the last few posts MacVector 11.1 is a release designed to consolidate and ‘tweak’ the many new features and changes that have been made over the last three years. In the main these changes are designed to simplify and speed up many common workflows as well as providing better integration with OS [...]

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MacVector 10.6 released

By Chris | Published: April 24, 2009

We have recently released a new version of MacVector – 10.6. All customers currently running any version of MacVector 10.5 are entitled to install this version. We highly recommend you to install and upgrade as this release combines numerous bug fixes to MacVector 10.5 in addition to new functionality. We have released 10.6 in between [...]

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