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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…
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MacVector 11.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Read more: MacVector 11.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow LeopardMacVector 11.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia or Panthera uncia) On August 28th Apple Computer, Inc. publicly release Mac OS X 10.6 also known as Snow Leopard. With any new release of the operating system (OS) there is always the question of whether the applications you own will continue to work.…
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What’s new in MacVector 11!
Read more: What’s new in MacVector 11!Our next release, MacVector 11, will be released this week. Continuing our policy of continuous improvement there’s a lot of under the hood improvements to make MacVector both faster and easier to use. However, MacVector 11 has a lot of other changes and some really useful new features that make this one of our best…
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Keeping a Happy Mac!
Read more: Keeping a Happy Mac!Macs generally just work. That’s not just a marketism, but something that every Mac user enjoys! When compared with some other operating systems (and as a Linux user as well as Mac I don’t just mean Windows!) OS X is a fairly robust system when it comes to keeping it running. However, like more or…
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Upgrade your old dongle to MacVector 11!
Read more: Upgrade your old dongle to MacVector 11!MacVector 11 will be released during August, 2009. This release has been designed to be the easiest version of MacVector to use yet. We’ve added many interface enhancements, such as a floating analysis toolbar. Also creating plasmid constructs has never been easier with point and click vector construction with Click Cloning. We’ve not forgotten to…
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Free MacVector Teaching licenses available
Read more: Free MacVector Teaching licenses availableDid you know that you are eligible for teaching licenses as long as you hold an active, up-to-date license? Recently, we had a whole class of students download our 30 day trial on the same day. Maybe the instructor did not hold a current license of MacVector, but if he/she did, they could have contacted…
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Next Generation sequencing formats
Read more: Next Generation sequencing formatsAs is common with the lack of standards seen with most emerging technologies there are many different and competing types of sequencing file formats for storage of short read or next generation sequencing data. All these formats try to solve the same question of storing an almost unprecedented amount of sequence data in a useable…
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Alignments in MacVector
Read more: Alignments in MacVectorUpdate 19 August 2013: We’ve added support for Muscle and T-Coffee to the MSA editor We get a lot of comments and questions from users on the various alignment functions in MacVector. They say there’s more than one way to skin a cat (not that I’ve done that – I have skinned a catfish, but…
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Philadelphia and the ASM Convention
Read more: Philadelphia and the ASM ConventionWe had a great time at the ASM Convention several weeks ago. Thanks to all of the MacVector users who stopped by the booth. We enjoyed meeting you, showing you new features in MacVector, and gaining your feedback that will help us plan for the future. We also met a lot of people who hadn’t…
