Category: 101 Tips
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #4 – FREE Teaching Licenses
As many US Universities prepare for the upcoming fall semester, now is a good time to remind you that we do offer complimentary teaching licenses for accredited Institutions in all countries. If you are running a practical course involving DNA or Protein analysis for the fall semester (or the autumn term!), you might consider installing…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #3 – The Importance of Topology
MacVector understands the difference between circular DNA molecules and linear DNA molecules. Not just from the standpoint of how the molecule is displayed on the screen, but also in regard to how the analysis algorithms handle the junction at the ends of the circle. The Topology button controls the underlying linear versus circular state of…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #2 – Option-click to open the Default Symbol editor
If you download sequences from BLAST or Entrez, or import GenBank or EMBL files with lots of features, you may wish that the features (genes, CDS, promoters etc) showed up differently in the Map tab, or maybe your favorite features don’t show up at all unless you turn them on using the Graphics Palette. Its…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #1 – Downloading BLAST Hits from the NCBI
When you use MacVector to run a BLAST search, did you know that you can download any matching sequences directly from the BLAST Description List window? Simply select text on any part of the line(s) representing the sequence you want to download; Then use the menu item Database | Retrieve to Disk to download any…