MacVector Pro now includes Assembler, a powerful sequence assembly plugin that brings sequence assembly directly to your desktop with the same user-friendly interface MacVector users have come to expect. Assembler simplifies the management, assembly, and analysis of all types of sequencing data. Assembler’s extensive toolkit has always been seamlessly integrated into MacVector, but previously required […]
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MacVector 18.7.3: a minor bug fix release
We’ve just released MacVector 18.7.3. This has a few minor bug fixes with calculating amino acid properties of a protein sequence: If you have not yet been prompted to upgrade then go to MACVECTOR | CHECK FOR UPDATES… or download the installer directly. MacVector 18.7.3 is fully supported on macOS High Sierra to macOS Sequoia.
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MacVector and macOS Sequoia
Apple released macOS Sequoia earlier this week (16th September 2024). As usual in the run up to a new macOS release, we have been testing MacVector on development builds of macOS Sequoia. We are happy to report that there are no issues and that MacVector 18.7 is fully supported on macOS Sequoia. If you do come across […]
MacVector 18.7 – View the history of your plasmid
The recently released MacVector 18.7 has a new History tab in the Single sequence editor that shows the editing history of your DNA sequences Since the introduction of MacVector’s 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 […]
MacVector 18.7.2
MacVector 18.7.2 update is now out We’ve just released another minor update to MacVector 18.7. Sorry to follow an update with another update so quickly but we discovered two minor, but annoying bugs. You will be prompted to update over the next few days (unless you have turned off update notifications). However, you can also […]
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MacVector 18.7.1 update is now out
We’ve just released a minor update to MacVector 18.7. You will be prompted to update over the next few days (unless you have turned off update notifications). However, you can also run MACVECTOR | CHECK FOR UPDATES.. or download the new version directly Changes for MacVector 18.7.1 macOS Support This release now supports all macOS […]
MacVector 18.7: Generating custom Codon Usage Tables (CUT) from your own sequences.
Our latest release, MacVector 18.7, has a new Codon Usage Table viewer. You can use this to generate your own codon usage table (CUT or .bias) files. You can use codon usage tables to optimize codon usage of CDS features for enhanced expression in a different organism. They can also be used in the Nucleic Acid Toolbox to predict protein coding […]
MacVector 18.7: Long-Read Reference Alignments using minimap2
Our latest release, MacVector 18.7, sees the addition of Minimap2 to Assembler’s sequencing toolkit. So if you have the Assembler module, you can now map noisy long-read data from Pacific Biosciences or Oxford Nanopore to one or more genomes. Minimap2 is a reference assembler similar to Bowtie2. But whereas Bowtie2 excels at mapping “short reads” (500nt or less) to […]
MacVector 18.7 has just been released.
MacVector 18.7 has just been released. If you are eligible for this release you will be prompted to upgrade, otherwise go to MACVECTOR | CHECK FOR UPDATES… and follow the prompts to be automatically upgraded. If your license is not eligible then why not upgrade? Overview MacVector 18.7 introduces a History tab to track the […]
MacVectorTip: Quality scoring of manual edits to your contigs.
Quality scoring of Assemblies and Align to Reference alignments can be visualized directly on the sequence. Residues can be shaded according to their quality scores. These can be displayed anywhere quality values are available, including de novo and reference assemblies in Assembler and Align to Reference alignments. The intensity of the shading of residues indicates […]