Author: Chris

  • MacVector 12.5 workshop at the University of Pennsylvania

    If you are a user of MacVector or have any interest in sequence analysis for molecular biologists then you may be interested to know that there’s a workshop about MacVector at the University of Pennsylvania this Thursday open to faculty, students and researchers. When: Thursday February 9th 9:30 to 11:00 Where: Blockley Hall, Room 1311…

  • MacVector 12.5 workshop at Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center

    If you are a user of MacVector or have any interest in sequence analysis for molecular biologists then you may be interested to know that there’s a workshop about MacVector at MSKCC this Wednesday open to MSKCC faculty, students and researchers. When: Wednesday February 8 from 11:00 to 12:30 Where: Room RRL B20 “Dr Kevin…

  • MacVector 12.5 workshop at Rockefeller

    If you are a user of MacVector or have any interest in sequence analysis for molecular biologists then you may be interested to know that there’s two workshops about MacVector at The Rockefeller University this Tuesday open to all Rockefeller faculty, students and researchers. When: Tuesday. Feb. 7, 2012 at 10:00 – 11:30 and 1:00…

  • Running old versions of MacVector on Lion.

    Only MacVector 9.5 and later versions will run on OS X 7 Lion. Apple started transitioning their processor architecture from PowerPC (PPC) to Intel’s x86 in 2006. The Macbook Pro and the iMac being the first Intel Macs. When they did so they gave Xcode (the OSX development environment) the ability to create Universal Binary…

  • MacVector 12.5: Creating alignments with T-Coffee and Muscle

    With MacVector 12.5 we’ve added additional multiple sequence alignment (MSA) algorithms. Muscle and T-coffee have been added to the Multiple Sequence Alignment editor complementing the existing ClustalW algorithm. We’ve wanted both of these for a while now and judging from the results of last year’s survey so have many users. Both T-Coffee and Muscle are…

  • …back to work!

    Getting back to the lab after the end of the year break is always a shock! You’ve might have been popping into the lab over the vacation to maintain your experiments, but now you need to get those experiments moving again and start getting the results in. So after you’ve chatted about the holidays with…

  • Happy holidays to all our users and friends

    At the end of 2011 we’d like to say thank you for your business and continued trust in us. MacVector, Inc. is about to celebrate its 5 year anniversary and it remains our mission to keep MacVector the number one sequence analysis application for the Mac. We try to listen to our customers and react…

  • MacVector and Assembler 12.5 are released

    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…

  • MacVector 12.5: Interface improvements and redesign

    This is part of a series of posts about the shortly to be released MacVector 12.5. With each release of MacVector as well as adding new features we continually redesign and rewrite many existing parts of MacVector. This is done for a number of reasons. For example: As a recent example you can now run…

  • MacVector 12.5: Creating reference assemblies with Bowtie

    This is part of a series of posts about and leading up to the release of MacVector 12.5. With Assembler 12.5 our developers have come up with an affordable and straightforward solution for assembling and visualizing your NGS data. Generating sequencing data is cheaper than it has ever been, however, with this increase in data…