Quite a few users have asked why we are only having an offer to upgrade old network licenses rather than any licenses. We do not want to upset people and so we’re allowing anybody who upgrades a standard license in November to receive a free copy of Assembler when they do so. We’re also being […]
Sometimes it is useful to sort, or cluster, an alignment according to the similarity/identity of its sequences. With such a sorted alignment you are able to more easily visualise closely related sequences as they will be together in an alignment with more distantly related sequences being much further apart. If you want to quickly cluster […]
As mentioned in a recent post MacVector has a powerful feature called Subsequence searches. This function allows you to keep a library of sequence pattern matches, using a powerful nomenclature with up to three parts, and quickly scan protein and nucleic acid sequences with this library. .Although MacVector ships with a number of collections of […]
MacVector allows you to find motifs, primers, transcription factor binding sites, or any significant region with a consensus sequence, in your sequence using a powerful feature called subsequence searches. This function allows you to keep a library of sequence patterns of either nucleic acid or proteins. You can use subsequences with complex patterns for the search […]
We’ll be attending the TSA Research Festival Exhibit Show at the NIH Research Festival Show later this week. We enjoy meeting our users and if you are attending the show or are just in the area then please do drop by to say hello. If you have any questions, constructive criticism, or features that you […]
With some operating systems buying a new computer can mean days migrating all your data and applications over. However, with OS X the Apple Migration Utility almost completely removes the hassle and the pleasure of your new Mac is not diluted by the pain of migration! However, this utility is not perfect and sometimes when […]
There’s a few ways to display an amino acid translation in the same window as your DNA or RNA sequence. (1) You can show either three or six frame translations directly in the editor. To do so simply press and hold down the STRANDS toolbar button. You’ll see the following menu and be able to […]
We’re hard at work with our MacVector 12 which will be out toward the end of the year. This is a little longer than our usual six months since MacVector 11.1 came out. However, this is a big release! There has been a rewrite of various interfaces with the aim of making them more accessible […]
Following our regular releases, which are every six months or so, we regularly release minor updates. These updates generally contain important bug fixes. So it is always important to ensure that you are using the most updated version of a major version. The latest updates for the last three major releases are: MacVector 11.1.2 MacVector […]
We’ve just released MacVector 11.1.2, which is a minor bug fix release. The bug fix list includes Translations now correctly honor the genetic code shown in that dialog rather than the global genetic code. You can now suppress the automatic re-ordering of reads in the Align to Reference window by holding down the <option> key when […]