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Designing primers that do not bind at multiple places in your template
Read more: Designing primers that do not bind at multiple places in your templateThe default settings for Primer3 do not actually check for whether a primer will bind at multiple places in the template. To turn this on use the PRIMER vs PRODUCT setting in the PRIMER BINDING tab (the Primer3 parameter is “PRIMER_MAX_TEMPLATE_MISPRIMING”). The default value is -1, which means do not check. Change this to 1…
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MacVector, Assembler and network licensing.
Read more: MacVector, Assembler and network licensing.We recently changed the way that Assembler network licenses are shared out to make it easier for many users to share a single license. Previously an Assembler license was checked out whenever you loaded MacVector with Assembler. However, now an Assembler license is only checked out when you start a new assembly project or open…
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MacVector on OS X 10.7 Lion
Read more: MacVector on OS X 10.7 LionLion was released through the App Store earlier today. Although MacVector has not gone through a full round of testing, our initial tests on development builds and the released version shows that there are no bugs, or at least no obvious ones! Here’s the coolest feature of Lion, Mission Control. Technorati Tags: MacVector
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Updated Restriction Enzyme files
Read more: Updated Restriction Enzyme filesThere are a few updated restriction enzyme files available for download. This file contains the latest Gateway and TOPO sites, and this file is contains the Common Enzymes file together with the updated sites. You can read about how to do Gateway cloning with MacVector here. Incidentally you can select multiple sites for copying by…
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Hiding Tooltips in the Editor.
Read more: Hiding Tooltips in the Editor.A feature new to MacVector 12 is the ability to both annotate and display features directly in the Editor, without having to open a separate Map view window. There are also tooltips that show the feature on the sequence directly under the mouse cursor. For example in the following screenshot you see the ID of…
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MacVector 12: Drag and Drop annotation of your sequences
Read more: MacVector 12: Drag and Drop annotation of your sequencesThis is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 If you click and drag a result from a results map to a sequence window it will be annotated as a feature. For example dragging a primer from a primer results map will annotate that primer as…
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Changes to isoelectric point calculation in MacVector
Read more: Changes to isoelectric point calculation in MacVectorWe have a policy of constant improvement in all areas of MacVector, even with algorithms and analyses that have been the same for many years. Recently we changed the way that the isoelectric point of a protein was calculated. The previous version of the algorithm was accurate for short proteins, however for longer amino acid…
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Roaming Network Licenses
Read more: Roaming Network LicensesWe’ve recently introduced a new feature to make using a network license much more flexible. Network licenses are great for sharing licenses amongst a large number of users. However, if you are not physically located in the same building (i.e. connected to the LAN) then it’s not straightforward. For example if you want peace and…
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ASM 2011 in New Orleans
Read more: ASM 2011 in New OrleansThe ASM2011 was a great show. We had a busy booth with some old friends and some new faces. We learnt more about what users need and some of that feedback has already gone into our next release, MacVector 12.5, that will be out towards the end of the Summer. We had fun outside the…
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MacVector at the ASM2011 in New Orleans
Read more: MacVector at the ASM2011 in New OrleansIt looks like the flood waters will not be a problem for this year’s American Society of Microbiologists 2011 conference In New Orleans. So we’re brushing up our Yat and looking forward to some creole and cajun cooking. If you are also in New Orleans, please do come by and visit us on Booth #1128.…
