Category: General

  • Migrating your Vector NTI sequence database to MacVector.

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    ThermoFisher (owners of Invitrogen) have announced that Vector NTI Express is nearing the end of its life and Vector NTI Advanced was terminated quite some time ago. If you are looking for an easy to use sequence analysis application, then look for a reliable and trusted application. MacVector is easy to use, has a comprehensive…

  • The MacVector Team will be at ASM Microbe 2019 in San Francisco.

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    We’re at ASM Microbe 2019 in San Francisco from Friday 21st June until Sunday 23rd. The show is finally back on the West Coast at the Moscone Convention Center after 6 years on the East Coast and New Orleans. This year the exhibit hall hours are unchanged from last year’s show: Friday, June 21st –…

  • Seasons Greetings from the MacVector Team

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    Have a great Christmas and here’s to an awesome 2019..

  • MacVector and macOS Mojave

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    Apple released macOS Mojave today (Tuesday 25th September). Over the past few months we have performed preliminary testing with MacVector 16.0.9 on various development releases of macOS Mojave through its development cycle and all appears to be well. So whereas we cannot state MacVector is compatible until it is officially released, we can say that…

  • Free MacVector Teaching licenses

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    Did you know that MacVector, Inc. offers FREE licenses for teaching purposes? If you are in the process of either preparing your lab for the upcoming year, or preparing for the courses you need to teach then don’t forgot that MacVector makes a great teaching tool. We offer free teaching licenses for anyone with an…

  • What can MacVector do for me?

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    Here’s what MacVector can do for your lab. Comparing sequences Whatever type of alignment your sequence needs, there’s a tool in MacVector. CRISPR Indel Analysis: Identify insertions and deletions following CRISPR editing of a target. Sequence assembly of NGS data against a reference genome or compare your sequencing against your new construct. Translated Multiple Sequence…

  • Annotating primers to your sequence with MacVector

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    Designing a pair of primers to amplify a single feature is pretty quick with MacVector. Once you have designed a pair of primers with MacVector, you can quickly annotate both the primers and product to your sequence template. The annotation contains a timestamp and the primer’s characteristics. It also contains the full sequence of the primer,…

  • MacVector are at the ASCB – EMBO 2017 meeting in Philadelphia

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    The MacVector team will be at the ASCB/EMBO 2017 meeting this coming Sunday. The conference starts on Sunday the 3rd of December and runs until Tuesday the 5th. It’s being held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Our booth is 1002. If you are in Philadelphia for the conference please pop along and say “hi!”. We…

  • The MacVector Team are at the ASM2017 in New Orleans (2-5 June).

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    We’re at ASM Microbe 2017 in New Orleans from Friday until Sunday (2-5 June). The exhibit hall hours are a more respectable 11:30 or 12 until 18:00 now (last year was a quite early 7:30 until the afternoon). We’re on booth #2247. Please do drop by. We’ll be showing our latest release, MacVector 15.5 and…

  • Simple but accurate restriction enzyme based clone construction using Copy and Paste

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    The quickest and simplest way to create restriction enzyme generated constructs in MacVector is to use Edit | Copy and Edit | Paste. The strategy to use is identical to copying a paragraph from one Microsoft Word document to insert into a second document. i.e. Select the restriction enzymes flanking the source fragment in either…