Category: General
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Are you teaching a Molecular Biology Course this year?
Many MacVector users don’t realize that we offer FREE licenses for teaching purposes. If you or your lab owns a license of MacVector 12 with a current maintenance contract, you are eligible. If you are teaching a course this year and are in the process of preparing your course content, consider using MacVector as a…
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MacVector and upgrading to Lion.
The latest version of OS X, Lion, has been out for a few weeks and it’s a great operating system. MacVector 12 has been tested and although not yet officially supported, it works great.. Nonetheless even though we’ve not yet come across any issues we are committed to fixing bugs. So if you are running…
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MacVector on OS X 10.7 Lion
Lion was released through the App Store earlier today. Although MacVector has not gone through a full round of testing, our initial tests on development builds and the released version shows that there are no bugs, or at least no obvious ones! Here’s the coolest feature of Lion, Mission Control. Technorati Tags:MacVector
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New, personal, single-machine licenses now available
We would like to announce a new license type that is now available – a personal license. This license is perfect for the user who only needs MacVector on one computer. It is perpetual (lifetime), will be node-locked to run only on one machine, and is less than half the cost of a standard license.…
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MacVector12: Forwards (and backwards!) compatibility of MacVector files
MacVector is very good at forward compatibility with sequence files. We do strive to ensure that all versions of MacVector will open files created by earlier versions. In fact MacVector 12 will still open files created by the very first version of MacVector! Backwards compatibility is more complicated as due to our policy of continuous…
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Lunch in honor of Pei-Li Li’s visit to Raleigh
It was nice to meet Pei-Li Li, our Asian/Pacific Representative finally! We had lunch in exciting downtown Raleigh, even showed him the big acorn! Guess which person was really not there.
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My first child shall be called MacVector
Check out this blog post! We’d love to meet the Genomic Repairman and thank him for his glowing testimonial. I would also add that PC users won’t be SOL for long. MacVector4Windows is in the pipeline.
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ANOTHER NOVEMBER SPECIAL OFFER: Buy or upgrade MacVector and receive Assembler for free…..
Quite a few users have asked why we are only having an offer to upgrade old network licenses rather than any licenses. We do not want to upset people and so we’re allowing anybody who upgrades a standard license in November to receive a free copy of Assembler when they do so. We’re also being…
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Error 500 when installing MacVector
With some operating systems buying a new computer can mean days migrating all your data and applications over. However, with OS X the Apple Migration Utility almost completely removes the hassle and the pleasure of your new Mac is not diluted by the pain of migration! However, this utility is not perfect and sometimes when…
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Displaying translations alongside your DNA sequence
There’s a few ways to display an amino acid translation in the same window as your DNA or RNA sequence. (1) You can show either three or six frame translations directly in the editor. To do so simply press and hold down the STRANDS toolbar button. You’ll see the following menu and be able to…