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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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A Black Friday/Cyber Monday special….Buy MacVector 13.5 and get one free.
Read more: A Black Friday/Cyber Monday special….Buy MacVector 13.5 and get one free.MacVector 13.5 is the best release yet for comparing large sequences and handling NGS data. The new interface is even more polished and further performance tuning has ensured this release of MacVector is faster than ever. If you do not yet have MacVector then the next seven days are just for you. Starting from today,…
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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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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #38 – Finding and Opening All The Sequences In Your Collection Containing Specific Genes
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #38 – Finding and Opening All The Sequences In Your Collection Containing Specific GenesHow often have you had a vector or sequence open and thought “I’m sure I have other vectors with that gene, but I can’t remember where they are”? If you are using MacVector 13.5, its very easy to quickly search folders on your hard drive to find all the sequences that contain that gene, then…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #37 – Testing PCR Primer Pairs Using Primer3
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #37 – Testing PCR Primer Pairs Using Primer3Over the past few releases of MacVector, we have been adding a lot of functionality to the Quicktest Primer and Primer Design (Primer3) interfaces and slowly removing the old outdated primer design functions. The general strategy is that anything you need to do with a single primer, you can accomplish using the Quicktest Primer interface.…
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MacVector 13.5 is out
Read more: MacVector 13.5 is outMacVector 13.5 was released last week. MacVector 13.5 is the best release yet. It’s had a redesign and rewrite of existing tools to make comparing large sequences faster and to improve handling of NGS data. Additionally the new interface, introduced in MacVector 13.0, has had many “tweaks” in response to user feedback. Plus a continued…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #36 – Changing the circular origin of a plasmid
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #36 – Changing the circular origin of a plasmidWhile most MacVector analysis algorithms can handle circular sequences, its sometimes useful to be able to set the “12 o’clock” point to a different location on the circle. This is easy to do with recent MacVector releases. If you are using MacVector 13.5, then all you have to do is position the flashing caret between…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #35 – How to make feature arrows in the Map point the other way
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #35 – How to make feature arrows in the Map point the other wayWe’ve had quite a few users calling up recently to ask how to get the arrows representing a feature in the Map view to point “the other way”. The arrows in the Map view are always shown pointing in the 5′ to 3′ direction relative to the feature, i.e. left to right for a feature…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #34 – How to fix a -5000 License Activation Error
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #34 – How to fix a -5000 License Activation ErrorIf you are using an older (pre-13.0) version of MacVector and you try to activate a license on a new computer, or after upgrading your operating system, you may get the following error; This is due to various read/write permissions changes that Apple have made to OS X over the years that prevents MacVector from…
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MacVector and Yosemite
Read more: MacVector and YosemiteOS X Yosemite was released today. As you no doubt already know Yosemite has a new flat look. The system font has changed to Helvetica as well. All in all after a few hours of using it we think the interface looks superb. As usual we’ve been testing MacVector on developer editions of Yosemite since…
