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Multisite Gateway cloning using the Cloning Clipboard
Read more: Multisite Gateway cloning using the Cloning ClipboardWith the introduction of the Cloning Clipboard in MacVector 12.7 both single step and Multisite Gateway cloning can be easily designed, replicated and documented. The Cloning Clipboard allows you to assemble fragments by dragging compatible ends of digested fragments together to form new fragments. Every digest operation in a sequence window will place a fragment…
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MacVector 12.6: Coming soon..
Read more: MacVector 12.6: Coming soon..Our upcoming release, MacVector 12.6, has just entered beta testing. As usual we’ve added a mixture of new features as well as improvements to existing tools. One tool that we are excited about is a realtime primer design tool. This allows you to manipulate your primer and see secondary structure and other useful oligo statistics…
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MacVector 12.5: Interface improvements and redesign
Read more: MacVector 12.5: Interface improvements and redesignThis is part of a series of posts about the shortly to be released MacVector 12.5. With each release of MacVector as well as adding new features we continually redesign and rewrite many existing parts of MacVector. This is done for a number of reasons. For example: As a recent example you can now run…
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Growl and MacVector
Read more: Growl and MacVectorOver 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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Mac OS X updates and MacVector
Read more: Mac OS X updates and MacVectorOne 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
Read more: Topology of a sequence and interface changesWith 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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MacVector 11.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Read more: MacVector 11.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow LeopardMacVector 11.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia or Panthera uncia) On August 28th Apple Computer, Inc. publicly release Mac OS X 10.6 also known as Snow Leopard. With any new release of the operating system (OS) there is always the question of whether the applications you own will continue to work.…
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Next Generation sequencing formats
Read more: Next Generation sequencing formatsAs is common with the lack of standards seen with most emerging technologies there are many different and competing types of sequencing file formats for storage of short read or next generation sequencing data. All these formats try to solve the same question of storing an almost unprecedented amount of sequence data in a useable…
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MacVector, Universal Type Identifiers and File Extensions
Read more: MacVector, Universal Type Identifiers and File ExtensionsOne feature that Macintosh applications have typically provided since the very beginning has been the ability to associate a document with an application such that opening the document (double clicking) would launch the appropriate application. Historically, on the Mac OS, this has been accomplished by including two additional pieces of information stored in the directory…
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Patch Releases
Read more: Patch ReleasesA trail of ants came marching though my kitchen last week. I found the hole they came in and plugged it up. There, that’s sorted them. Two days later they were back, this time through a different hole. Bugs – I hate them. Just like software. There are probably as many different approaches to software…
