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Month: September 2025

  • macOS Tahoe and MacVector 18.8

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    Apple released macOS Tahoe on Monday (15th Sept 2025). As usual in the run up to a new macOS release, we have been testing MacVector 18.8 on development and public betas of macOS Tahoe. With macOS Tahoe’s Liquid Glass appearance we have come across a very minor display glitch. But otherwise we are happy to…

  • Handling Gaps in Multiple Sequence Alignment Consensus Calculations

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    By default, MacVector ignores gaps when calculating the consensus of a multiple sequence alignment. However, this can lead to some unexpected results. For example, consider this three sequence alignment where one sequence has a long insertion compared to the other two. In this case it does not seem reasonable to believe that the “consensus” should…