Category: General
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MacVector 26 has just been released!
MacVector 26 was released last week (13 July 2026) and it’s a significant release. MacVector 26 has new features for designing and documenting cloning workflows and for managing your sequences. The new Cloning Project Manager allows you to design Golden Gate Cloning workflows. So along with Ligase Independent Cloning, Gibson Assembly and traditional restriction enzyme…
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MacVector 26: Understanding macOS sandboxing
For many years now, Apple has encouraged developers to create applications that run in a “Sandbox” on macOS. In fact, for the last few years, any application downloaded from the Apple App Store must be set to run in a sandbox. This protects your computer and your data from intentional or accidental data access or…
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MacVectorTip: How to prepare annotated eukaryotic genome assemblies for import into MacVector
One of the more challenging aspects of dealing with large eukaryotic genomes is that most are incomplete and have many gaps. Often the genomes are available as a collection of hundreds or thousands of separate contigs, with associated annotations. This makes working with them awkward. However, increasingly, entire annotated chromosomes can be downloaded with the…
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Merry Christmas from the MacVector team
For those who celebrate the MacVector team wish you a very merry Christmas. We hope you are able to turn off that sequencer, put away your pipette and have a relaxing time with your loved ones. Here’s to a better year for science in 2026!
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Automating annotation of sequences via BLAST
MacVector 18.8 is out and it’s packed with new tools! MacVector 18.8 has tools to help you identify and annotate unknown, unannotated or partially annotated sequences. Ideal for identifying contigs from a de novo assembly. One of these new tools is AutoAnnotate (via BLAST) Auto-Annotate (via BLAST) is similar to Auto-Annotate (local), except instead of using curated sequences on your own…
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MacVector 18.8 Is Here – Packed with Powerful New Features
A game changer for identifying unknown sequences MacVector 18.8 is out and it’s packed with new tools! MacVector 18.8 has tools to help you identify and annotate unknown, unannotated or partially annotated sequences. Batch BLAST allows you to automate BLAST searches for multiple sequences and Auto-Annotate (via BLAST) allows you to automatically annotate multiple sequences.…
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MacVector 18.8 Installer
MacVector 18.8 requires macOS Big Sur (11) or later, including macOS Tahoe when it is released. It will NOT work on Windows, macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or earlier. MacVector 18.8 is a “Universal Binary”, meaning it will run natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon based Macintosh computers. The changes in MacVector 18.8 are described in the Release Notes .…
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MacVectorTip: Use Align to Folder to filter NGS data for specific genes
Even the latest Macintosh computers loaded with as much RAM as you can afford will still struggle to de novo assemble genomes much over 50 Mbp. But, often that is not required. If you are just interested in a few genes, or a specific region of a chromosome, you can use Align to Folder to filter the…
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The 40th anniversary of the Mac!
So it is forty years since Steve Jobs walked onto the stage and announced the Mac! MacVector did not come about until six years later as MacVector 1.0 was released in March 1990! But we are still proud that MacVector has now been running on the Mac for over thirty years. Especially that MacVector 18.6…
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Merry Christmas from all of us at MacVector….!
We hope 2022 was a productive and enjoyable year for your research, and that MacVector has played some part in that. Once again, 2022 was not the uneventful year that we all hoped for. Perhaps 2023…? Before you go and relax with friends and family, help your colleagues make the most of MacVector and give…