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MacVector 12: Ensuring your license is up to date
Read more: MacVector 12: Ensuring your license is up to dateMacVector 12 is now officially released (it’s been a preview release for the past month). Before updating your copy make sure that you have entered your latest license details (you will have been emailed these when you last renewed your maintenance). Unless you have renewed in the last month you will need to have entered…
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MacVector 12: New features for Click Cloning and Restriction Enzyme analysis
Read more: MacVector 12: New features for Click Cloning and Restriction Enzyme analysisThis is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 In MacVector 12 designing your construct with Click Cloning has never been easier. There’s a stack of new features to enhance restriction mapping and choosing how to get that fragment into your cloning vector. Unique Restriction sites…
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MacVector 12: Creating features from results
Read more: MacVector 12: Creating features from resultsThis is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 MacVector has always allowed you to generate a large amount of information about your sequence. However, it’s not always been easy to create Genbank compatible annotations back to your sequence. With MacVector 12 we’ve added a feature…
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Copying subsequences from larger sequences.
Read more: Copying subsequences from larger sequences.Sometimes when working on a small subsequence of a much larger sequence it is easier to take that section and make a new file. It is also generally useful in such circumstances to preserve the original numbering. For example if you want to analyse a single gene, but still keep the numbering in the context…
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Aligning primers against a template sequence
Read more: Aligning primers against a template sequenceA common request, especially in our recent survey, is to align existing primer sequences against a template sequence. There are many ways to do this in MacVector, depending on what your requirements are Using the Find dialog For quickly finding a single primer in a sequence the Find dialog is the first point of call.…
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Clustering an alignment
Read more: Clustering an alignmentSometimes it is useful to sort, or cluster, an alignment according to the similarity/identity of its sequences. With such a sorted alignment you are able to more easily visualise closely related sequences as they will be together in an alignment with more distantly related sequences being much further apart. If you want to quickly cluster…
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Jaspar, MacVector & Subsequence searches
Read more: Jaspar, MacVector & Subsequence searchesMacVector allows you to find motifs, primers, transcription factor binding sites, or any significant region with a consensus sequence, in your sequence using a powerful feature called subsequence searches. This function allows you to keep a library of sequence patterns of either nucleic acid or proteins. You can use subsequences with complex patterns for the search…
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Error 500 when installing MacVector
Read more: Error 500 when installing MacVectorWith some operating systems buying a new computer can mean days migrating all your data and applications over. However, with OS X the Apple Migration Utility almost completely removes the hassle and the pleasure of your new Mac is not diluted by the pain of migration! However, this utility is not perfect and sometimes when…
