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Month: May 2026

  • MacVectorTip: Highlighting regions of a sequence in the Editor tab

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    Sometimes it’s a simple visualization of your sequence that you need or you want to quickly annotate an interesting part of your sequence to investigate later. So in addition to displaying a rich visual representation of your sequence and its features in the Map tab, MacVector can also show specific regions directly in the Editor tab. For instance, you…

  • MacVectorTip: How to prepare annotated eukaryotic genome assemblies for import into MacVector

    MacVectorTip: How to prepare annotated eukaryotic genome assemblies for import into MacVector

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    One of the more challenging aspects of dealing with large eukaryotic genomes is that most are incomplete and have many gaps. Often the genomes are available as a collection of hundreds or thousands of separate contigs, with associated annotations. This makes working with them awkward. However, increasingly, entire annotated chromosomes can be downloaded with the…

  • MacVectorTip: How to view the edit history of your sequence

    MacVectorTip: How to view the edit history of your sequence

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    MacVector’s History tab shows the edit history of your DNA sequences. Some of MacVector’s editing tools will annotate every modification to your sequence. For example with the 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…