Category: Tips
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MacVector 12: Annotating the sequence in the Editor View.
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…
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Renumbering a sequence
To change the numbering of a MacVector sequence hover the mouse over the ‘red’ cross (or number) that appears at the beginning of a sequence. This will change to a hand. Double click and enter the new start number in the dialog that appears. You may also drag the red cross to a place in…
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MacVector 12: Changes to the Find dialogue
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…
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MacVector 12: Ensuring your license is up to date
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…
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MacVector 12: New features for Click Cloning and Restriction Enzyme analysis
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…
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MacVector 12: Creating features from results
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…
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Copying subsequences from larger sequences.
Sometimes when working on a small subsequence of a much larger sequence it is easier to take that section and make a new file. It is also generally useful in such circumstances to preserve the original numbering. For example if you want to analyse a single gene, but still keep the numbering in the context…
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Aligning primers against a template sequence
A common request, especially in our recent survey, is to align existing primer sequences against a template sequence. There are many ways to do this in MacVector, depending on what your requirements are Using the Find dialog For quickly finding a single primer in a sequence the Find dialog is the first point of call.…
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Clustering an alignment
Sometimes it is useful to sort, or cluster, an alignment according to the similarity/identity of its sequences. With such a sorted alignment you are able to more easily visualise closely related sequences as they will be together in an alignment with more distantly related sequences being much further apart. If you want to quickly cluster…
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Jaspar, MacVector & Subsequence searches
MacVector allows you to find motifs, primers, transcription factor binding sites, or any significant region with a consensus sequence, in your sequence using a powerful feature called subsequence searches. This function allows you to keep a library of sequence patterns of either nucleic acid or proteins. You can use subsequences with complex patterns for the search…