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Using the Primer Database to store your lab’s collection of primers
Read more: Using the Primer Database to store your lab’s collection of primersMacVector now directly supports storing primers within a primer database. The Primer Database tool allows you to save and retrieve primers from subsequence files within Primer3 and Quicktest Primer. You can easily create your own primer database, use existing files or import primers from Excel. Many users use subsequence files to store primers, and in…
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Editing the appearance of individual sequences maps
Read more: Editing the appearance of individual sequences mapsAlthough we think that the default appearance of sequence maps in MacVector is very pretty, sometimes the defaults are not to everybody’s taste! If you think this way, then changing how maps look is very easy. Rather than edit the appearance of all of your sequences it is far better to modify the default symbol…
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Smart Folders and MacVector
Read more: Smart Folders and MacVectorOS X’s Finder has many features for quickly finding and working with your files. Spotlight Search is one such tool that most Mac users are familiar with. However, Smart Folders is a tool that is very useful but often overlooked. Smart Folders allow you to create a dynamic folder whose contents are derived from a…
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How to quickly design primers to amplify a feature on your sequence
Read more: How to quickly design primers to amplify a feature on your sequenceTo design a pair of primers to amplify a single feature is pretty quick with MacVector.
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Quickly checking a small sequencing project
Read more: Quickly checking a small sequencing projectFor analysing large sequencing datasets, whether de novo or mapping reads against a reference you need Assembler. However, many times you do not need a powerful tool but just a quick way to check some sequencing data. For example for checking small sequencing projects, such as a site directed mutagenesis, looking for SNPs in a…
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UNIX line endings for plain text files
Read more: UNIX line endings for plain text filesSometimes you may need to export data out of MacVector for further analysis with a command line tool or sending a file to a colleague who does not have MacVector). For example exporting the VCF report out of a reference assembly or exporting a sequence into Genbank format. If these files are plain text, then…
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Restriction enzyme sites and tooltips.
Read more: Restriction enzyme sites and tooltips.EDIT: April 12, 2019 From MacVector 16 and later the setting for the Automatic RE Analysis is in: PREFERENCES | SCAN DNA | RESTRICTION SITES Quickly viewing the recognition sequence and cut site of a restriction site is very easy in the Map tab. If you hover your mouse over a restriction site in the Map…
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MacVector, Yosemite and increasing dialog window sizes!
Read more: MacVector, Yosemite and increasing dialog window sizes!There’s a small bug in Yosemite that causes the size of the dialog windows to increase in size. MacVector is affected by this problem. Basically every time you use a dialog its size increases slightly. Over time the dialog becomes too large to fit on the screen and you will have problems clicking the buttons.…
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Keep Blast running on MacVector 12.7.5 and earlier versions.
Read more: Keep Blast running on MacVector 12.7.5 and earlier versions.If you are running MacVector 12.7.5 or earlier Blast will stop working for you from the end of this month. The fix for this is below. MacVector makes it easy to run a Blast search from your Desktop, and retrieve the hits directly back into MacVector. MacVector does this by submitting these Blast searches directly…
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MacVector 13 training Workshop at the Gurdon Institute
Read more: MacVector 13 training Workshop at the Gurdon InstituteWhen: Thursday 23rd October from 11:30 until 13:30 Where: The Gurdon Institute, Level 1 meeting room Chris Lindley of MacVector, Inc. will be giving a workshop for both novice and advanced users of MacVector, reviewing both basic and advanced functions in MacVector. In particular, he will highlight the new functionality introduced over the last few years.…
