MacVector can import sequences in many different formats and import sequences, assemblies and other documents from many sequence analysis applications.
Universal sequence formats:
MacVector will import (and export!) all the following universal sequence formats.
- GenBank (including the DNASTAR, DuPont sequencer, and IBM Pustell variants).
- GenPept
- EMBL
- SWISSPROT
- PHYLIP
- NEXUS
- FASTA
- Staden
- GCG (RSF and MSF)
- TEXT files containing only sequence data
- CODATA (both NBRF PIR and DNASTAR variants).
Other software packages
MacVector will import sequences and assemblies from the following applications. Where possible it will preserve as much information as possible. For example all features from Snapgene sequences are preserved but will be displayed with MacVector’s graphics.
- SnapGene .dna files
- SerialCloner .xdna files
- Sequencher .spf assembly project files
- DNAStrider .seq files
Annotation/features data
You can annotate existing sequences using the Import Features.. tool. This will bring annotation in the following formats.
- BED
- GFF/GFF3
- GFT
Sequencing Data
MacVector’s Assembly Projects Manager will import (..and assemble/visualize) all the following
- Trace files/Chromatograms
- FASTQ
- Oxford Nanopore (ONT)
- PacBio
- Illumina
- 454
- SOLiD
- Helicos
- Ion Torrent
- FASTA
- SAM/BAM