We have recently released a new version of MacVector – 10.6. All customers currently running any version of MacVector 10.5 are entitled to install this version. We highly recommend you to install and upgrade as this release combines numerous bug fixes to MacVector 10.5 in addition to new functionality.
We have released 10.6 in between major releases mainly because we have added a new feature that will allow users to directly import sequences from Vector NTI databases along with their associated features. We have received many requests from former VectorNTI customers looking to move to a native Macintosh solution. We hope that this will prove to be a valuable tool for them to move their VNTI data and associated features to MacVector quickly.
Our next major release, MacVector 11 is still scheduled for release during the Summer.
The Vector NTI database importer allows you to directly import sequence data from databases created by Vector NTI Advance v10 or earlier. It will import databases on remote Windows machines too. Also since MacVector follows the Genbank format for the features table and is always kept up to date with the latest Genbank release, it has the added benefit of migrating any old and deprecated features information contained in the Vector NTI file into the current up to date features nomenclature.
MacVector 10.6 includes all of the cumulative bug fixes added to MacVector for versions 10.5.1 through 10.5.3 and has a few additional bug fixes, including;
(a) Sequences files can now be saved directly to non-Apple file systems such as remote Windows machines or USB drives.
(b) The Chromatogram (“Trace file”) editor has had a number of bugs fixed to make it more stable and to solve certain data corruption issues.
(c) Align To Reference now does a better job of laying out the graphics after running an alignment. You can also now prevent Reads from being sorted by position after the alignment completes by holding down the option key when starting the analysis.
Existing customers can download the installer immediately.
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