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What’s New in MacVector 11.1?
Read more: What’s New in MacVector 11.1?As mentioned in the last few posts MacVector 11.1 is a release designed to consolidate and ‘tweak’ the many new features and changes that have been made over the last three years. In the main these changes are designed to simplify and speed up many common workflows as well as providing better integration with OS…
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Graphical enhancements in MacVector 11.1
Read more: Graphical enhancements in MacVector 11.1MacVector 11.1 has had many changes that are designed to simplify and speed up many common workflows as well as to providing better integration with OS X and improving performance. A great deal of these changes have been made to improve the graphical Map view. Performance MacVector’s Map View allows the features and results (e.g.…
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MacVector & Twitter
Read more: MacVector & TwitterWe’ve contemplated using Twitter in the past, but always hesitated to do so, as most ‘corporate’ users we see just use it as a pure marketing channel, and that’s quite boring! However, quite a few of us use Twitter personally and it’s a great channel to find out real information. With the release of MacVector…
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Growl and MacVector
Read more: Growl and MacVectorOver the next few weeks I’m going to be highlighting some of the new features that are being added to MacVector 11.1. The first of these is support for a great notification system that we all use at MacVector. Some analyses with MacVector will take seconds and as such are done in the foreground. However,…
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All the best for 2010
Read more: All the best for 2010So once again we find ourselves on a cold January day looking back at the year that has just been, and towards to the year that will be. We’ve been very pleased that during 2009 we’ve had a record number of users contacting us with new ideas, and feedback on how MacVector works for them.…
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Happy holidays from all the MacVector team
Read more: Happy holidays from all the MacVector teamHappy holidays to all users of MacVector (and everybody else!). We hope that 2009 has been a year of great experiments and positive result, and that MacVector has helped to make your life in the lab as productive and as easy as it could have been. Here’s to more success in your research, with astounding…
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Gateway and TOPO Cloning with MacVector
Read more: Gateway and TOPO Cloning with MacVectorHere at MacVector we always try to listen to our end users when deciding what functionality to add to new versions. The more users that request a new feature, the more likely it is to get to the top of the list. One item that recently reached the top of our list was support for…
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Mac OS X updates and MacVector
Read more: Mac OS X updates and MacVectorOne of the great things about OS X is that updates are really painless to install! Actually come to mention it upgrading the OS between major versions is usually trouble free too! For minor in version updates System Update will easily download and update the OS, leaving you the user to just reboot. So really…
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Auto Annotation in MacVector 11
Read more: Auto Annotation in MacVector 11Have you ever got that plasmid back from the sequencing facility as a bare sequence with no annotations? Or downloaded that vector from from the vendors site to find its only available in a fasta format with no features? Or maybe your collaborators send you poorly annotated sequences. Maybe your lab-mate uses MacVector but insists…
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Topology of a sequence and interface changes
Read more: Topology of a sequence and interface changesWith each new release of MacVector we have always strived to be the easiest to use sequence analysis application. We have made some fairly radical changes to the interface over the last few years, and inevitably there are some changes that you know will confuse long time users but are needed to make the interface…