Author Archives: Chris

Graphical enhancements in MacVector 11.1

MacVector 11.1 has had many changes that are designed to simplify and speed up many common workflows as well as to providing better integration with OS X and improving performance. A great deal of these changes have been made to improve the graphical Map view. Performance MacVector’s Map View allows the features and results (e.g. […]

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MacVector & Twitter

We’ve contemplated using Twitter in the past, but always hesitated to do so, as most ‘corporate’ users we see just use it as a pure marketing channel, and that’s quite boring! However, quite a few of us use Twitter personally and it’s a great channel to find out real information. With the release of MacVector […]

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Growl and MacVector

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be highlighting some of the new features that are being added to MacVector 11.1. The first of these is support for a great notification system that we all use at MacVector. Some analyses with MacVector will take seconds and as such are done in the foreground. However, […]

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All the best for 2010

So once again we find ourselves on a cold January day looking back at the year that has just been, and towards to the year that will be. We’ve been very pleased that during 2009 we’ve had a record number of users contacting us with new ideas, and feedback on how MacVector works for them. […]

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Happy holidays from all the MacVector team

Happy holidays to all users of MacVector (and everybody else!). We hope that 2009 has been a year of great experiments and positive result, and that MacVector has helped to make your life in the lab as productive and as easy as it could have been. Here’s to more success in your research, with astounding […]

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Mac OS X updates and MacVector

One of the great things about OS X is that updates are really painless to install! Actually come to mention it upgrading the OS between major versions is usually trouble free too! For minor in version updates System Update will easily download and update the OS, leaving you the user to just reboot. So really […]

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Topology of a sequence and interface changes

With each new release of MacVector we have always strived to be the easiest to use sequence analysis application. We have made some fairly radical changes to the interface over the last few years, and inevitably there are some changes that you know will confuse long time users but are needed to make the interface […]

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What’s new in MacVector 11!

Our next release, MacVector 11, will be released this week. Continuing our policy of continuous improvement there’s a lot of under the hood improvements to make MacVector both faster and easier to use. However, MacVector 11 has a lot of other changes and some really useful new features that make this one of our best […]

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Keeping a Happy Mac!

Macs generally just work. That’s not just a marketism, but something that every Mac user enjoys! When compared with some other operating systems (and as a Linux user as well as Mac I don’t just mean Windows!) OS X is a fairly robust system when it comes to keeping it running. However, like more or […]

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Upgrade your old dongle to MacVector 11!

MacVector 11 will be released during August, 2009. This release has been designed to be the easiest version of MacVector to use yet. We’ve added many interface enhancements, such as a floating analysis toolbar. Also creating plasmid constructs has never been easier with point and click vector construction with Click Cloning. We’ve not forgotten to […]

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