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What can MacVector do for me?
Read more: What can MacVector do for me?New Features Here’s what MacVector can do for your lab. Comparing sequences Whatever type of alignment your sequence needs, there’s a tool in MacVector. CRISPR Indel Analysis: Identify insertions and deletions following CRISPR editing of a target. Sequence assembly of NGS data against a reference genome or compare your sequencing against your new construct. Translated…
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Annotating primers to your sequence with MacVector
Read more: Annotating primers to your sequence with MacVectorDesigning a pair of primers to amplify a single feature is pretty quick with MacVector. Once you have designed a pair of primers with MacVector, you can quickly annotate both the primers and product to your sequence template. The annotation contains a timestamp and the primer’s characteristics. It also contains the full sequence of the primer,…
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MacVector are at the ASCB – EMBO 2017 meeting in Philadelphia
Read more: MacVector are at the ASCB – EMBO 2017 meeting in PhiladelphiaThe MacVector team will be at the ASCB/EMBO 2017 meeting this coming Sunday. The conference starts on Sunday the 3rd of December and runs until Tuesday the 5th. It’s being held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Our booth is 1002. If you are in Philadelphia for the conference please pop along and say “hi!”. We…
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The MacVector Team are at the ASM2017 in New Orleans (2-5 June).
Read more: The MacVector Team are at the ASM2017 in New Orleans (2-5 June).We’re at ASM Microbe 2017 in New Orleans from Friday until Sunday (2-5 June). The exhibit hall hours are a more respectable 11:30 or 12 until 18:00 now (last year was a quite early 7:30 until the afternoon). We’re on booth #2247. Please do drop by. We’ll be showing our latest release, MacVector 15.5 and…
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Simple but accurate restriction enzyme based clone construction using Copy and Paste
Read more: Simple but accurate restriction enzyme based clone construction using Copy and PasteThe quickest and simplest way to create restriction enzyme generated constructs in MacVector is to use Edit | Copy and Edit | Paste. The strategy to use is identical to copying a paragraph from one Microsoft Word document to insert into a second document. i.e. The red line around the left ends indicates that they…
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Batch auto annotation of blank sequences with MacVector and AppleScript
Read more: Batch auto annotation of blank sequences with MacVector and AppleScriptOver the past few releases we’ve been making more MacVector tools to be scriptable with AppleScript. The latest is Auto Annotation. Auto Annotation is a great tool for curating your sequences. For example if you receive a unannotated sequence then you can scan it against other sequences to find. Blasting an unknown sequence, fetching the…
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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’s Primer Database allows you to save and retrieve primers from a Primer Database with the Primer3 and Quicktest Primer tools. You can also scan sequences for potential primer binding sites using Primer Database Search. The tool comes with a starter database of primers, but you can use existing subsequence files or import primers from…
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Happy Holidays from all of us at MacVector…!
Read more: Happy Holidays from all of us at MacVector…!We wish you a happy, healthy and rewarding New Year!
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Creating a custom set of restriction enzymes containing just the enzymes in your freezer drawer.
Read more: Creating a custom set of restriction enzymes containing just the enzymes in your freezer drawer.MacVector has multiple tools for displaying restriction enzymes sites in your sequence. All of these tools use Restriction Enzyme files. These are a set of files, updated regularly from the REBASE database, grouped according to reagent supplier. Whereas the default file is “Common Enzymes” if you only purchase enzymes from NEB, then you can choose…
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Controlling the realism of Agarose Gels
Read more: Controlling the realism of Agarose GelsThe default settings for the agarose gel display in MacVector generate a reasonable photorealistic simulation of an agarose gel. We have actually boosted the intensity of small bands quite significantly, and reduced their diffusion so that smaller bands show up a little more obviously and crisply than they might in real life. Even so, you…
