Month: September 2024
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MacVector Pro is now MacVector Pro with Assembler
MacVector Pro now includes Assembler, a powerful sequence assembly plugin that brings sequence assembly directly to your desktop with the same user-friendly interface MacVector users have come to expect. Assembler simplifies the management, assembly, and analysis of all types of sequencing data. Assembler’s extensive toolkit has always been seamlessly integrated into MacVector, but previously required…
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MacVector 18.7.3: a minor bug fix release
We’ve just released MacVector 18.7.3. This has a few minor bug fixes with calculating amino acid properties of a protein sequence: If you have not yet been prompted to upgrade then go to MACVECTOR | CHECK FOR UPDATES… or download the installer directly. MacVector 18.7.3 is fully supported on macOS High Sierra to macOS Sequoia.
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MacVector and macOS Sequoia
Apple released macOS Sequoia earlier this week (16th September 2024). As usual in the run up to a new macOS release, we have been testing MacVector on development builds of macOS Sequoia. We are happy to report that there are no issues and that MacVector 18.7 is fully supported on macOS Sequoia. If you do come across…
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MacVector 18.7 – View the history of your plasmid
The recently released MacVector 18.7 has a new History tab in the Single sequence editor that shows the editing history of your DNA sequences Since the introduction of MacVector’s Cloning Clipboard, all cloning actions (such as ligating a digested fragment into a vector) create a /FRAG feature that records the source of the ligated fragment, the restriction enzymes used to digest it (and…
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MacVector 18.7 – Change in Default Restriction Enzyme File Location
One change in MacVector 18.7, that will improve installation on multi user Macs, is that by default MacVector now stores restriction enzyme files in the user’s home folder. Since it’s the user’s home folder, it will always be writeable, even if the user does not have Administrator access to the machine. Additionally for a Mac…