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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…
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Designing and testing primers in MacVector – part 2
Read more: Designing and testing primers in MacVector – part 2In the first article in this series we took an overview of all the primer design tools in MacVector. In this second look at primer design in MacVector I’m going to look in more detail at our latest tool – Design Primers (Primer3). Primer3 is a powerful, highly configurable command line tool for designing primers.…
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MacVector at the ASM
Read more: MacVector at the ASMIf you are attending the American Society for Microbiology meeting in Philadephia, be sure to stop by the MacVector booth ( 304) and say hello. We are giving away some cool mouse pads with a summary of the DNA and Protein IUPAC codes and the Universal Genetic Code printed on them for quick reference.
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An overview of Sequence Assembly in MacVector
Read more: An overview of Sequence Assembly in MacVectorMacVector has had sequence assembly functionality for a long time. Many moons ago MacVector came with a OS9 only tool called AssemblyLIGN. Although a useful tool it was fairly limited and needed a complete replacement, so about five years ago Assembler was released, which is a much more modern tool for sequence assembly. In addition…
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MacVector, Universal Type Identifiers and File Extensions
Read more: MacVector, Universal Type Identifiers and File ExtensionsOne feature that Macintosh applications have typically provided since the very beginning has been the ability to associate a document with an application such that opening the document (double clicking) would launch the appropriate application. Historically, on the Mac OS, this has been accomplished by including two additional pieces of information stored in the directory…
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How to save a graphical Map.
Read more: How to save a graphical Map.With earlier versions of MacVector the graphical Map was treated as a separate object to the actual sequence, and you could save it directly as a graphic file (PICT) from the Map window. However, the graphical map changed substantially with MacVector 9.5 and even more in 10.0, and now you need a different way to…
