Category: Releases

  • Changes to isoelectric point calculation in MacVector

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    We have a policy of constant improvement in all areas of MacVector, even with algorithms and analyses that have been the same for many years. Recently we changed the way that the isoelectric point of a protein was calculated. The previous version of the algorithm was accurate for short proteins, however for longer amino acid…

  • MacVector 12: Annotating the sequence in the Editor View.

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    This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 In the last survey a popular request was to be able to change the case, alter the colour, or otherwise being able to annotate sequence directly in the Editor view. You’ve been able to use the Map…

  • MacVector 12: Changes to the Find dialogue

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    This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 The find dialogue is a nondescript but fairly essential tool of any sequence analysis application. With uses such as finding short sections in your sequence to quickly searching for a primer it is probably one of the…

  • MacVector 12.0.2 has just been released

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    Download it here. This contains a few bugs fixes that surfaced after the 12.0.1 release.

  • MacVector 12: Ensuring your license is up to date

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    MacVector 12 is now officially released (it’s been a preview release for the past month). Before updating your copy make sure that you have entered your latest license details (you will have been emailed these when you last renewed your maintenance). Unless you have renewed in the last month you will need to have entered…

  • MacVector 12: New features for Click Cloning and Restriction Enzyme analysis

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    This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 In MacVector 12 designing your construct with Click Cloning has never been easier. There’s a stack of new features to enhance restriction mapping and choosing how to get that fragment into your cloning vector. Unique Restriction sites…

  • MacVector 12: Creating features from results

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    This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 MacVector has always allowed you to generate a large amount of information about your sequence. However, it’s not always been easy to create Genbank compatible annotations back to your sequence. With MacVector 12 we’ve added a feature…

  • Preview release of MacVector 12

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    MacVector 12.0 is almost ready for release and you can download a preview release here. The full release will be out shortly. There’s a lot of great new features in MacVector 12. Virtual Cloning is much easier with auto detection of compatible sites. The whole interface has been reworked with a graphical overview of your…

  • New features in the upcoming MacVector 12 release.

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    We’re hard at work with our MacVector 12 which will be out toward the end of the year. This is a little longer than our usual six months since MacVector 11.1 came out. However, this is a big release! There has been a rewrite of various interfaces with the aim of making them more accessible…

  • Keeping your copy of MacVector up to date

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    Following our regular releases, which are every six months or so, we regularly release minor updates. These updates generally contain important bug fixes. So it is always important to ensure that you are using the most updated version of a major version. The latest updates for the last three major releases are: MacVector 11.1.2 MacVector…