Tag: graphics
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #5 – Printing Graphics Onto A Single Page
The Map tab of MacVector’s single sequence editor displays highly detailed graphics showing sequence in circular or linear format. It is highly customizable and the graphics can be printed or copied to other applications using Apple’s internal PDF vector graphics format, resulting in images that can be scaled to any size with no loss of…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #3 – The Importance of Topology
MacVector understands the difference between circular DNA molecules and linear DNA molecules. Not just from the standpoint of how the molecule is displayed on the screen, but also in regard to how the analysis algorithms handle the junction at the ends of the circle. The Topology button controls the underlying linear versus circular state of…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #2 – Option-click to open the Default Symbol editor
If you download sequences from BLAST or Entrez, or import GenBank or EMBL files with lots of features, you may wish that the features (genes, CDS, promoters etc) showed up differently in the Map tab, or maybe your favorite features don’t show up at all unless you turn them on using the Graphics Palette. Its…
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Graphics In MacVector: Exporting publication quality graphics.
This article is the first in a series of “howtos” resulting from the 2010 survey results. It may not be at the cutting edge of sequence analysis but sooner or later most users of such apps are going to have to produce a graphic of their work, whether that is a plasmid map, a tree,…
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Graphical enhancements in MacVector 11.1
MacVector 11.1 has had many changes that are designed to simplify and speed up many common workflows as well as to providing better integration with OS X and improving performance. A great deal of these changes have been made to improve the graphical Map view. Performance MacVector’s Map View allows the features and results (e.g.…
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Auto Annotation in MacVector 11
Have you ever got that plasmid back from the sequencing facility as a bare sequence with no annotations? Or downloaded that vector from from the vendors site to find its only available in a fasta format with no features? Or maybe your collaborators send you poorly annotated sequences. Maybe your lab-mate uses MacVector but insists…
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How to save a graphical Map.
With earlier versions of MacVector the graphical Map was treated as a separate object to the actual sequence, and you could save it directly as a graphic file (PICT) from the Map window. However, the graphical map changed substantially with MacVector 9.5 and even more in 10.0, and now you need a different way to…