Category: General

  • 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…

  • Next Generation sequencing formats

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    As is common with the lack of standards seen with most emerging technologies there are many different and competing types of sequencing file formats for storage of short read or next generation sequencing data. All these formats try to solve the same question of storing an almost unprecedented amount of sequence data in a useable…

  • Philadelphia and the ASM Convention

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    We had a great time at the ASM Convention several weeks ago. Thanks to all of the MacVector users who stopped by the booth. We enjoyed meeting you, showing you new features in MacVector, and gaining your feedback that will help us plan for the future. We also met a lot of people who hadn’t…

  • MacVector, Universal Type Identifiers and File Extensions

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    One feature that Macintosh applications have typically provided since the very beginning has been the ability to associate a document with an application such that opening the document (double clicking) would launch the appropriate application. Historically, on the Mac OS, this has been accomplished by including two additional pieces of information stored in the directory…

  • Welcome to our blog

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    We’ve wanted to start a blog to better communicate with the MacVector community since we started MacVector, Inc, at the start of 2007. However, there’s always been something else to do. No longer! We already have our forums with contributions from users and with the blog we want to do something different. We will bring…