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Testing pairs of primers with MacVector
Read more: Testing pairs of primers with MacVectorMacVector’s Primer Design tools makes it easy to test your primers. You can insert them directly from MacVector’s Primer Database or copy and paste them.
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Reference assembly with MacVector and Assembler
Read more: Reference assembly with MacVector and AssemblerMacVector has a plugin module called Assembler that integrates directly into the main package and provides sequence assembly functionality. Assembler was designed from the ground up to be easy to use and allow users to easily manage the large amount of data that sequencing generates nowadays. The Assembler interface is built around the Assembly Project…
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A whole new way to design primers with MacVector’s Quicktest Primer
Read more: A whole new way to design primers with MacVector’s Quicktest PrimerQuickTest Primer completely changes the way primers can be designed on a computer. It simplifies primer design by showing your primer and its statistics in realtime. Does your primer have a hairpin? Nudge it along your template until the hairpin goes? Want to add a restriction site? Then add one and again nudge your primer…
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Get ready for the release of macOS High Sierra with a 30% discount on all MacVector upgrades
Read more: Get ready for the release of macOS High Sierra with a 30% discount on all MacVector upgradesmacOS® High Sierra will be released Monday 25th of September. Whether you intend to upgrade early, or months later, you’ll be pleased to know that MacVector 15.5 (the current version) and MacVector 16 (our upcoming release) are both fully supported and compatible with macOS High Sierra. If you are running MacVector 15.5. MacVector 15.5 is…
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What can MacVector do for your lab?
Read more: What can MacVector do for your lab?Here’s an overview of what MacVector can do for you! Comparing sequences Whatever alignment your sequence needs, MacVector has the right tool. CRISPR Indel Analysis: Identify insertions and deletions following CRISPR editing of a target. Multiple sequence alignment of protein or DNA sequences using CLustalW/Muscle or T-Coffee and produce publication quality alignments. Sequence assembly of…
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NIH Research Festival 2017
Read more: NIH Research Festival 2017The MacVector team will be at the NIH Research Festival this coming Thursday and Friday. We enjoy the tent show and look forward to meeting NIH MacVector users both new and old, and anybody who is interested in learning to use the easiest to use sequence analysis application for the Mac. Learn about the new…
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How to check the orientation of a ligated insert using MacVector’s Restriction Digest and Agarose Gel tools.
Read more: How to check the orientation of a ligated insert using MacVector’s Restriction Digest and Agarose Gel tools.How to check the orientation of a ligated insert using MacVector’s Restriction Digest and Agarose Gel tools.
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Annotating a gene in MacVector
Read more: Annotating a gene in MacVectorCreating biologically accurate AND beautiful maps of your plasmids is easy in MacVector. All you need to do is select some sequence, then open the FEATURES EDITOR. Every annotation is fully compatible with the Genbank specification and Feature Table.
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Downloading hits from the MacVector 15.5 BLAST Map results tab
Read more: Downloading hits from the MacVector 15.5 BLAST Map results tabThe MacVector 15.5 BLAST Map results tab is a unique interface for examining the annotations around hits to a query sequence. Each pane in the display represents a High Scoring Segment Pair, as seen in the BLAST Aligned Sequence tab. At the lower left corner of each pane is a Download button – when you…
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Controlling Automatic ORF Display
Read more: Controlling Automatic ORF DisplayMacVector 15.5 automatically scans every DNA sequence window for open reading frames and displays the results in the Map tab. The setting for this are controlled by the MacVector | Preferences | DNA Map pane, along with the automatic Show restriction sites settings. The Minimum Number of Codons setting is fairly obvious. 5’ ends are…
