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Season’s greetings from the MacVector team
Read more: Season’s greetings from the MacVector teamThere is no time more fitting to say “Thank You” and to wish you a Happy Holiday Season and a New Year full of health, happiness, and great results from your research. Make sure you put down that pipette and relax , and if you’ve not updated to MacVector 12.7, make sure you take time…
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MacVector 12.7 is now out.
Read more: MacVector 12.7 is now out.We’re pleased to announce that MacVector 12.7 has just been released. The most exciting new feature is the Cloning Clipboard. We’ve had a lot of user requests over the past few years for help with designing cloning operations and the user feedback we had during the beta testing of MacVector 12.7 makes us think we’ve…
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MacVector 12.7 preview release
Read more: MacVector 12.7 preview releaseOur next release is MacVector 12.7 and it will be out very soon. However, if don’t want to wait then you can download a preview before the real release in November. MacVector 12.7 has a new Cloning Clipboard tool that dramatically simplifies the creation of new DNA constructs. The new functionality not only lets you…
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Subcloning using the Cloning Clipboard
Read more: Subcloning using the Cloning ClipboardCloning on MacVector has always been an easy procedure. Every digestion places a fragment on the cloning clipboard which then allows you to ligate that fragment into a vector. However, this limitation has now gone with the Cloning Clipboard. The Cloning Clipboard allows you to store a history containing fragments from previous digestions. Not only…
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Upgrade or purchase a new license in August 2012 and receive a 10% discount.
Read more: Upgrade or purchase a new license in August 2012 and receive a 10% discount.To celebrate the recent release of MacVector 12.6 and the release of Mountain Lion we are offering a 10% discount on all new licenses and upgrades throughout August. Here are some of the new features in MacVector 12.6. If you like what you see and are interested in purchasing a license, or upgrading an existing…
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QuickTest Primer: Designing Primers in MacVector
Read more: QuickTest Primer: Designing Primers in MacVectorMacVector has a brand new tool for designing primers. QuickTest Primer completely changes the way primers can be designed on a computer. It simplifies primer design by showing your primer and its statistics in realtime. Does your primer have a hairpin? Nudge it along your template until the hairpin goes? Want to add a restriction…
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MacVector 12.6: Coming soon..
Read more: MacVector 12.6: Coming soon..Our upcoming release, MacVector 12.6, has just entered beta testing. As usual we’ve added a mixture of new features as well as improvements to existing tools. One tool that we are excited about is a realtime primer design tool. This allows you to manipulate your primer and see secondary structure and other useful oligo statistics…
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Importing features from a Genome Browser
Read more: Importing features from a Genome BrowserMacVector’s Import Features tool allows you to import annotation from many Genome Browsers (e.g. Ensemble, UCSC, etc). MacVector can annotate an empty or annotated sequence. BED, GFF, GTF, and GFF3 formats GFF, GTF, GFF3 & BED files are all file formats that are used to store annotation (features) generally without containing any sequence. Although it…
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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…
