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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #24 – Creating Features
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #24 – Creating FeaturesThis is a tip primarily aimed at new users of MacVector, but may be of interest to anyone who wants better understand the way MacVector handles features. MacVector can create wonderfully detailed graphical maps of a sequence, showing all the points of interest, restriction sites, open reading frames etc. However, each item to be displayed…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #23 – Viewing Publications
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #23 – Viewing PublicationsIf you ever download sequences from Entrez, or open a GenBank formatted sequence file, you will often see PUBMED entries in the Annotations tab with blue colored numeric IDs; The blue color indicates that this is a link that you can use to retrieve an abstract of the publications. If you double-click on the PUBMED…
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Removing a restriction site by linearising and religating a plasmid
Read more: Removing a restriction site by linearising and religating a plasmidBeing able to remove a restriction site by digesting to linearise a plasmid, Klenow treating then religating the linear fragment is a very useful trick and an often requested feature. This is now possible with the new Cloning Clipboard in MacVector 12.7. select the enzyme recognition site you want to remove Click DIGEST to linearize…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #22 – Aligning Primers To A Reference Sequence
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #22 – Aligning Primers To A Reference SequenceThere are a number of different ways that you can find the potential binding locations of primers on a sequence using MacVector. You can use the Quicktest Primer function, or create a Primer database and scan for potential primer binding sites using the Analyze | Nucleic Acid Subsequence analysis algorithm. You can also use the…
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MacVector 12.7 is now out.
Read more: MacVector 12.7 is now out.We’re pleased to announce that MacVector 12.7 has just been released. The most exciting new feature is the Cloning Clipboard. We’ve had a lot of user requests over the past few years for help with designing cloning operations and the user feedback we had during the beta testing of MacVector 12.7 makes us think we’ve…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #21 – MacVector Free
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #21 – MacVector FreeMacVector Free is a version on MacVector that provides many of MacVector’s most popular functions completely free of charge. This is a new feature of MacVector that we introduced with the latest MacVector 12.7 version. Here’s how to get it – simply register for the fully functional 21-day time-limited trial version and install the trial…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #20 – Customizable Toolbars
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #20 – Customizable ToolbarsThis is more of a Mac OS X tip than anything specific to MacVector. However, it does come up again and again and it illustrates just one way that MacVector is tightly integrated into the Apple operating system. If you right-click on the toolbar of any MacVector window, a drop down menu will appear (ctrl-click…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #19 – Preview Releases and Beta Testing
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #19 – Preview Releases and Beta TestingHere at MacVector we do try to listen to our users and love getting feedback and suggestions for features to add to future versions. We also like to have “real world users” test each version before we finally release it as an upgrade. No matter how much internal testing we perform, there always seems to…
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MacVector 12.7 preview release
Read more: MacVector 12.7 preview releaseOur next release is MacVector 12.7 and it will be out very soon. However, if don’t want to wait then you can download a preview before the real release in November. MacVector 12.7 has a new Cloning Clipboard tool that dramatically simplifies the creation of new DNA constructs. The new functionality not only lets you…
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Workshop series in Boston – November, 6th to 9th
Read more: Workshop series in Boston – November, 6th to 9thIf you are a user of MacVector and work in Boston, then you may be interested to know that MacVector are heading your way! Our trainer, Kevin Kendall, will be presenting a series of workshops on MacVector aimed at both beginners and advanced users. He will review basic and advanced functionality within MacVector, focusing on…
