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  • MacVector at ASM 2010

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    The MacVector team will be attending the ASM 2010 meeting in San Diego.  If you are attending then please do drop by booth 240 (near the laptop lounge) to say hello!  If you are an user, then please do come and tell us what you think. Even if you think it is perfect (come top…

  • Flying for business is so 20th century!

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    The volcanic ash cloud covering most of Europe is a timely reminder of just how powerful nature is. With the disruption to air travel it’s also a great reminder of just how most communications can be done without meeting face to face. Whereas it is always nice to meet with MacVector users, any such visit…

  • Hidden labels in MacVector 11.1?

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    We made a whole slew of graphical enhancements to MacVector 11.1. Most of these were intended to increase the performance for viewing the graphical map of very large sequences. One of these hides the labels of features when you are showing a heavily annotated sequence. However, in hindsight we set the default value for this…

  • Configuring cross-posting with the MacVector forums

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    I’m configuring access from the WordPress blog to cross post to the MacVector forums. So I thought it was a good opportunity to remind you about our forums. We have a fairly quiet but active community on our forums. They’ve been running since 2007 and there’s a lot of useful tips and topics on there.

  • MacVector & Twitter

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    We’ve contemplated using Twitter in the past, but always hesitated to do so, as most ‘corporate’ users we see just use it as a pure marketing channel, and that’s quite boring! However, quite a few of us use Twitter personally and it’s a great channel to find out real information. With the release of MacVector…

  • All the best for 2010

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    So once again we find ourselves on a cold January day looking back at the year that has just been, and towards to the year that will be. We’ve been very pleased that during 2009 we’ve had a record number of users contacting us with new ideas, and feedback on how MacVector works for them.…

  • Happy holidays from all the MacVector team

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    Happy holidays to all users of MacVector (and everybody else!). We hope that 2009 has been a year of great experiments and positive result, and that MacVector has helped to make your life in the lab as productive and as easy as it could have been. Here’s to more success in your research, with astounding…

  • MacVector 11.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

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    MacVector 11.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia or Panthera uncia) On August 28th Apple Computer, Inc. publicly release Mac OS X 10.6 also known as Snow Leopard. With any new release of the operating system (OS) there is always the question of whether the applications you own will continue to work.…

  • Keeping a Happy Mac!

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    Macs generally just work. That’s not just a marketism, but something that every Mac user enjoys! When compared with some other operating systems (and as a Linux user as well as Mac I don’t just mean Windows!) OS X is a fairly robust system when it comes to keeping it running. However, like more or…

  • Free MacVector Teaching licenses available

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    Did you know that you are eligible for teaching licenses as long as you hold an active, up-to-date license? Recently, we had a whole class of students download our 30 day trial on the same day. Maybe the instructor did not hold a current license of MacVector, but if he/she did, they could have contacted…