One change in MacVector 18.7, that will improve installation on multi user Macs, is that by default MacVector now stores restriction enzyme files in the user’s home folder. Since it’s the user’s home folder, it will always be writeable, even if the user does not have Administrator access to the machine. Additionally for a Mac…
MacVector 18.7.2 update is now out We’ve just released another minor update to MacVector 18.7. Sorry to follow an update with another update so quickly but we discovered two minor, but annoying bugs. You will be prompted to update over the next few days (unless you have turned off update notifications). However, you can also…
We’ve just released a minor update to MacVector 18.7. You will be prompted to update over the next few days (unless you have turned off update notifications). However, you can also run MACVECTOR | CHECK FOR UPDATES.. or download the new version directly Changes for MacVector 18.7.1 macOS Support This release now supports all macOS…
Our latest release, MacVector 18.7, has a new Codon Usage Table viewer. You can use this to generate your own codon usage table (CUT or .bias) files. You can use codon usage tables to optimize codon usage of CDS features for enhanced expression in a different organism. They can also be used in the Nucleic Acid Toolbox to predict protein coding…
Our latest release, MacVector 18.7, sees the addition of Minimap2 to Assembler’s sequencing toolkit. So if you have the Assembler module, you can now map noisy long-read data from Pacific Biosciences or Oxford Nanopore to one or more genomes. Minimap2 is a reference assembler similar to Bowtie2. But whereas Bowtie2 excels at mapping “short reads” (500nt or less) to…
MacVector 18.7 has just been released. If you are eligible for this release you will be prompted to upgrade, otherwise go to MACVECTOR | CHECK FOR UPDATES… and follow the prompts to be automatically upgraded. If your license is not eligible then why not upgrade? Overview MacVector 18.7 introduces a History tab to track the…
So it is forty years since Steve Jobs walked onto the stage and announced the Mac! MacVector did not come about until six years later as MacVector 1.0 was released in March 1990! But we are still proud that MacVector has now been running on the Mac for over thirty years. Especially that MacVector 18.6…
Apple released macOS Sonoma yesterday (Tuesday 26th Sept 2023). As usual in the run up to a new macOS release, we have been testing MacVector on development builds of macOS Sonoma. Unfortunately, at a late stage we found an undocumented change that affects a few tools in MacVector. MacVector uses a number of third party…
New to MacVector 18.6 is the ability to sort and assemble reads from different datasets into individual sub-projects. This functionality is located in the phrap parameters dialog. When enabled and configured appropriately for your dataset it will automatically break out the input reads into sub-projects to be assembled separately. A simple pattern-matching text box lets…
Our latest release, MacVector 18.6 has a new tool that will directly optimize codon usage of CDS features for enhanced expression in a different organism. The new tool pulls together multiple tools into a one step procedure which can be run by selecting a CDS feature in your nucleic acid sequence and running Analyze |…
