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Updating to Keyserver 7.0
Read more: Updating to Keyserver 7.0KeyServer 7.0 was released a few months back. There is no need to upgrade your license server for MacVector. However, if you do want to upgrade then you must download the latest installer direct from Sassafras. This version (7.0.0.3) contains important bug fixes and is a later version than the KeyServer installer on the MacVector…
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Using old subsequence files with MacVector
Read more: Using old subsequence files with MacVectorSometimes when a subsequence file, that has been created by an version of MacVector prior to MacVector 11, has been stored on a remote filesystem or has been emailed MacVector will refuse to open the file. Mac files are generally comprised of two pieces: A data fork and the resource fork. Prior to the release…
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MacVector 12.5 workshop at the University of Pennsylvania
Read more: MacVector 12.5 workshop at the University of PennsylvaniaIf you are a user of MacVector or have any interest in sequence analysis for molecular biologists then you may be interested to know that there’s a workshop about MacVector at the University of Pennsylvania this Thursday open to faculty, students and researchers. When: Thursday February 9th 9:30 to 11:00 Where: Blockley Hall, Room 1311…
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MacVector 12.5 workshop at Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center
Read more: MacVector 12.5 workshop at Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer CenterIf you are a user of MacVector or have any interest in sequence analysis for molecular biologists then you may be interested to know that there’s a workshop about MacVector at MSKCC this Wednesday open to MSKCC faculty, students and researchers. When: Wednesday February 8 from 11:00 to 12:30 Where: Room RRL B20 “Dr Kevin…
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MacVector 12.5 workshop at Rockefeller
Read more: MacVector 12.5 workshop at RockefellerIf you are a user of MacVector or have any interest in sequence analysis for molecular biologists then you may be interested to know that there’s two workshops about MacVector at The Rockefeller University this Tuesday open to all Rockefeller faculty, students and researchers. When: Tuesday. Feb. 7, 2012 at 10:00 – 11:30 and 1:00…
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Running old versions of MacVector on Lion.
Read more: Running old versions of MacVector on Lion.Only MacVector 9.5 and later versions will run on OS X 7 Lion. Apple started transitioning their processor architecture from PowerPC (PPC) to Intel’s x86 in 2006. The Macbook Pro and the iMac being the first Intel Macs. When they did so they gave Xcode (the OSX development environment) the ability to create Universal Binary…
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MacVector 12.5: Creating alignments with T-Coffee and Muscle
Read more: MacVector 12.5: Creating alignments with T-Coffee and MuscleWith MacVector 12.5 we’ve added additional multiple sequence alignment (MSA) algorithms. Muscle and T-coffee have been added to the Multiple Sequence Alignment editor complementing the existing ClustalW algorithm. We’ve wanted both of these for a while now and judging from the results of last year’s survey so have many users. Both T-Coffee and Muscle are…
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Activating a license on Lion for older copies of MacVector
Read more: Activating a license on Lion for older copies of MacVectorWith the release of OS X 10.7 Lion Apple made significant changes to the structure and permissions of various important folders. For example the Library folder in the user’s home folder is now hidden. A consequence of this is that on Lion (and all versions after that) older versions of MacVector do not have the…
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…back to work!
Read more: …back to work!Getting back to the lab after the end of the year break is always a shock! You’ve might have been popping into the lab over the vacation to maintain your experiments, but now you need to get those experiments moving again and start getting the results in. So after you’ve chatted about the holidays with…
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Happy holidays to all our users and friends
Read more: Happy holidays to all our users and friendsAt the end of 2011 we’d like to say thank you for your business and continued trust in us. MacVector, Inc. is about to celebrate its 5 year anniversary and it remains our mission to keep MacVector the number one sequence analysis application for the Mac. We try to listen to our customers and react…
