Author: Chris
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MacVector 12.5: Sequence Assembly made easy.
This is part of a series of posts about and leading up to the release of MacVector 12.5. Assembler has always made it easy to assemble your sequencing projects. It hides the complicated algorithms and provides a point and click interface to show you the results. With the release of MacVector 12.5 the range of…
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Zooming to the sequence level in the Map view
When zoomed to the residue level it’s easy to check restriction enzyme ends. Technorati Tags: MacVector
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MacVector 12.5 new features
This is the first in a series of posts about and leading up to the release of MacVector 12.5. MacVector 12.5 will be released shortly. As long as testing shows up no obstacles it will be soon entering the external beta stage. If you want to participate in the beta program please do email support.…
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Problems with DMG appearing not to mount.
Sometimes when you download the MacVector disk image and try to mount it nothing appears to happen. Generally this is because although it has been mounted a Finder window has not popped up. It also affects those of us with messy desktop (not me of course!). If you have many files then you might miss…
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MacVector 12.0.6
MacVector 12.0.6 was released a few days ago. This has a few small but significant bug fixes. If you are running MacVector 12 it’s a recommended upgrade.
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MacVector 10.6 and earlier and Lion
If you have upgraded to Lion and you’re running MacVector 10 to 10.6 (earlier versions will not run) then anytime MacVector displays an error message it will crash. MacVector 10.6 was developed before even Snow Leopard was released and is quite long in the tooth now. Why not take this opportunity to upgrade to MacVector…
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MacVector 12.0.5 is out
MacVector 12.0.5 is a cumulative patch release that fixes a few bugs in MacVector 12.0.4 and includes all the bug fixes since 12.0 was released. If you have a current maintenance contract with MacVector (as of Dec 1st 2010), you can download the updater for MacVector 12.0.5.
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MacVector and upgrading to Lion.
The latest version of OS X, Lion, has been out for a few weeks and it’s a great operating system. MacVector 12 has been tested and although not yet officially supported, it works great.. Nonetheless even though we’ve not yet come across any issues we are committed to fixing bugs. So if you are running…
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Designing primers that do not bind at multiple places in your template
The default settings for Primer3 do not actually check for whether a primer will bind at multiple places in the template. To turn this on use the PRIMER vs PRODUCT setting in the PRIMER BINDING tab (the Primer3 parameter is “PRIMER_MAX_TEMPLATE_MISPRIMING”). The default value is -1, which means do not check. Change this to 1…