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  • MacVector Talk: September 2014: A Day In The Life

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    MacVector might not save you from pipetter’s thumb, but it will save you time designing primers, looking for restriction sites, subcloning genes and many other routine tasks that the molecular biologist needs to do. Here’s a lighthearted look at a day in the lab and how the wide variety of tools in MacVector will make…

  • MacVector 13.0.6 is out

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    This is a minor release that contains a few important bug fixes. Get it here now or wait for the sparkle update later today. One of the fixes concerns the classification of short reads versus long reads in de novo assembly with Velvet. Make sure you update now if your work involves that.

  • Free teaching licenses!

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    It’s that time of year when summer is coming to a close and you need to get ready for teaching again! However, to make you feel a little better, did you know that you can get FREE licenses for teaching purposes? MacVector makes a great teaching tool and we offer free teaching licenses for anyone…

  • MacVector for Windows

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    It’s been one of the most popular customer requests for a long time. It’s not yet ready for release, but MacVector for Windows is very definitely on its way. Spot the difference! MacVector for Windows is not a Java version of MacVector. It is a fully native version of MacVector but on Windows. MacVector is…

  • MacVector 13.0.4 is ready to install

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    This is a critical bug-fix update to MacVector 13.0.3 that should be installed by all users of MacVector 13. The bugs fixed are listed in the Release Notes and you may download the installer. However, you’ll be able to update using Sparkle from inside MacVector as long as you are running MacVector 13.0.1 and later.

  • Online updating with Sparkle

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    Having to update software is an annoying, but essential, part of modern computing life! All software has bugs that need fixing and good software should add new features as well. We try with MacVector to do both, But that means that from time to time you will need to download and install a new version.…

  • MacVector Talk: July 2014: Sequence assembly on the desktop with MacVector and Assembler.

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    Generating sequencing data is cheaper than it has ever been. However, with this increase in data has come a problem with easy analysis. Assembling 20 reads for your site directed mutagenesis project is easy. Why should dealing with 20 million reads of your bacterial genome be any harder? In our Summer newsletter we talk about…

  • Using Applescript to batch convert files.

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    Up until MacVector 13 Applescript support was fairly limited. However, with this release we’ve started to expand it. The first enhancement has been to improve the export of files. Now you can export files to any supported format. Over the next few releases this support will be further expanded to include some analysis tools. If…

  • MacVector at the ASM in Boston

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    We’ll be at the 114th American Society for Microbiology this coming Saturday, May 17-20, 2014 in Boston. Come visit us if you are also in Boston. We’re on booth 345. We’ll have demo CDs of our latest release, MacVector 13, and there’ll be mouse pads and incubator tube floaties to pick up. Probably candy too!…

  • MacVector 13.0.1 released.

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    We’ve just released a minor update, MacVector 13.0.1. This release has a few minor bug fixes that have been reported in the past month. However, this release also sees the introduction of online updating via Sparkle. This allows you to update your copy of MacVector in place. Once a day MacVector will check our website…