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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #1 – Downloading BLAST Hits from the NCBI
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #1 – Downloading BLAST Hits from the NCBIWhen you use MacVector to run a BLAST search, did you know that you can download any matching sequences directly from the BLAST Description List window? Simply select text on any part of the line(s) representing the sequence you want to download; Then use the menu item Database | Retrieve to Disk to download any…
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MacVector 12.6 and Mountain Lion
Read more: MacVector 12.6 and Mountain LionThe eagerly awaited Mountain Lion was released last week in the App Store. We’ve conducted initial testing with MacVector 12.6 on Mountain Lion. Our testing has found only a single fairly minor issue concerned with installation. So far there are no issues with any day to day functionality. The downloadable disk image does not automatically…
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QuickTest Primer: Designing Primers in MacVector
Read more: QuickTest Primer: Designing Primers in MacVectorMacVector has a brand new tool for designing primers. QuickTest Primer completely changes the way primers can be designed on a computer. It simplifies primer design by showing your primer and its statistics in realtime. Does your primer have a hairpin? Nudge it along your template until the hairpin goes? Want to add a restriction…
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MacVector 12.6: Coming soon..
Read more: MacVector 12.6: Coming soon..Our upcoming release, MacVector 12.6, has just entered beta testing. As usual we’ve added a mixture of new features as well as improvements to existing tools. One tool that we are excited about is a realtime primer design tool. This allows you to manipulate your primer and see secondary structure and other useful oligo statistics…
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Importing features from a Genome Browser
Read more: Importing features from a Genome Browser(updated March 21, 2018) MacVector’s Import Features tool allows you to import annotation from many Genome Browsers (e.g. Ensemble, UCSC, etc). MacVector can annotate an empty or annotated sequence. BED, GFF, GTF, and GFF3 formats GFF, GTF, GFF3 & BED files are all file formats that are used to store annotation (features) generally without containing any…
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ASM2012: San Francisco
Read more: ASM2012: San FranciscoWe’ll be at the 112th ASM meeting in San Francisco this year from June 16 – 19, 2012. Come visit us if you are at the show. Our booth at the ASM will be 936. We’ll be demoing MacVector 12.6 which will be released about that date. You’ll also be able to pick up demo…
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Showing features as bases or a translation in a plasmid map
Read more: Showing features as bases or a translation in a plasmid mapEverybody has different tastes and giving everybody identical plasmid maps is unfair! So MacVector is designed to be as flexible as possible to allow you to make your maps look like YOU want then to look. In this theme was a recent change where appropriate features can be shown as residues when there is sufficient…
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New release of KeyServer K2
Read more: New release of KeyServer K2The latest version of KeyServer is now K2 7.0.0.5. Run the version check on this page to check which version of which part you are running and if you need to upgrade. Remember if you are upgrading from a version earlier than K2 v 7 you’ll need a new MacVector license. Contact Support to request…
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Assembler: Using the coverage map of the Reference Contig editor to analyze your assembly
Read more: Assembler: Using the coverage map of the Reference Contig editor to analyze your assemblyThere are two main steps to creating a reference assembly. Mapping your reads against your reference sequence and then analysing the alignment for variations. Knowing the depth of reads, or coverage, of an alignment is important for both of these stages. A low average depth of coverage means that you have less confidence in the…
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Choosing the default application to open a file type
Read more: Choosing the default application to open a file typeSometimes you’ll find that when you double click on a document (for example a protein sequence) that it opens in the wrong application. Generally this has resulted from recently installing a new application that has registered itself as the default application that you normally use to open that document. This will overwrite your default application.…
