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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #47 – Optimal PCR Annealing Temperature
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #47 – Optimal PCR Annealing TemperatureI wrote about how MacVector calculates the melting temperature of a primer in an earlier blog post. One other common question we get is, “once I have designed a pair of primers, what is the optimum annealing temperature to use in the PCR?” MacVector calculates this and displays the results in the Analyze | Primer…
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MacVector 14.0.4 is OS X 10.11 El Capitan compatible.
Read more: MacVector 14.0.4 is OS X 10.11 El Capitan compatible.OS X 10.11 El Capitan was released last week. We’ve been testing MacVector on the developer releases of OS X EL Capitan in the run up to the official release. However, as usual we prefer to fully test on an official release of OS X before saying that MacVector is supported. We’ve now done so…
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Buy two copies of MacVector 14 for the price of one.
Read more: Buy two copies of MacVector 14 for the price of one.For the month of October if you buy a personal or standard license of MacVector Pro then you’ll get one free! We never stop working to keep MacVector your best solution for designing primers, subcloning into vectors, aligning your sequences and checking small sequencing projects on the Mac. So don’t miss this chance to start…
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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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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #46 – How to increase the number of graphics layers in the Map tab
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #46 – How to increase the number of graphics layers in the Map tabThe graphical maps of heavily annotated sequences can get busy in a hurry. You may end up with so many features overlapping a specific location on a sequence that the graphical images for those features “pile up” on top of one another at the top or bottom of the display. While this can happen with…
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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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MacVector Cloning Edition
Read more: MacVector Cloning EditionDoes your lab only need a simple DNA analysis application that will help you design primers and cloning experiments? Has your budget been cut to the bone? If the answer is a resounding “yes”, then we’ve released a new version of MacVector just for you. MacVector Cloning Edition provides all of the functionality you need…
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MacVector for Windows update
Read more: MacVector for Windows updateThe development for MacVector for Windows progresses. It’s not ready for release yet but it’s definitely the last stage before testing. MacVector for Windows is not a Java version of MacVector. MacVector, the original, is designed for, and fully integrates with, the OS X environment. We know users really appreciate that. If you can use…
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The “/label” qualifier, features in the Editor tab and MacVector 14.0.2
Read more: The “/label” qualifier, features in the Editor tab and MacVector 14.0.2With MacVector 14.0 we introduced two minor changes that have just not pleased a lot of users. We spend a lot of time discussing all improvements in every release and we did think that these two changes improved MacVector. But a lot of users have complained about both of them. So it looks like we…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #45 – Automatically annotating sequences using BLAST
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #45 – Automatically annotating sequences using BLASTThe Database | Auto-annotate Sequence… tool is a great way to automatically annotate a bare DNA sequence. If you are unfamiliar with this, check out this previous tip. Auto-annotate is an incredibly simple (and fast!) way to annotate a bare sequence, but it does rely on you having a folder full of sequences containing all…
