Tag: releases

  • Automatic Assembly of Sub-projects with Phrap (Sub-Assemblies)

    Automatic Assembly of Sub-projects with Phrap (Sub-Assemblies)

    New to MacVector 18.6 is the ability to sort and assemble reads from different datasets into individual sub-projects. This functionality is located in the phrap parameters dialog. When enabled and configured appropriately for your dataset it will automatically break out the input reads into sub-projects to be assembled separately. A simple pattern-matching text box lets…

  • One click Codon Optimization of CDS Features

    One click Codon Optimization of CDS Features

    Our latest release, MacVector 18.6 has a new tool that will directly optimize codon usage of CDS features for enhanced expression in a different organism. The new tool pulls together multiple tools into a one step procedure which can be run by selecting a CDS feature in your nucleic acid sequence and running Analyze |…

  • How to call heterozygotes in trace files or Assembly Projects

    How to call heterozygotes in trace files or Assembly Projects

    In MacVector 18.5 we added a new tool to call heterozygotes in sequencing reads. The heterozygote analysis tool allows you to either view heterozygotes in Sanger trace files or to permanently change the basecalled sequence with an ambiguity representing the called heterozygote. The tool works on multiple trace files in the Assembly project manager or…

  • MacVector 18.5.1

    MacVector 18.5.1

    We’ve just released a minor update, MacVector 18.5.1. Changes include: You will be automatically promoted to update. or go to FILE | CHECK FOR UPDATES… to update now. You can download the full installer instead. For assistance with remove activation of standard licenses please contact support.

  • MacVector 18.5  has just been released and is macOS Ventura ready!

    MacVector 18.5 has just been released and is macOS Ventura ready!

    It’s that time of year again. Apple have released macOS Ventura and we are very pleased to announce MacVector 18.5 is out. MacVector 18.5 is fully macOS Ventura ready! macOS Ventura ready Heterozygote Analysis of Sanger trace files Align to Reference supports long reads Miscellaneous enhancements How to upgrade to MacVector 18.5 If you have…

  • MacVector 18.5 is macOS Ventura ready

    MacVector 18.5 is macOS Ventura ready

    It’s that time of year again. Apple have just released macOS Ventura and we are very pleased to announce our current release, MacVector 18.2 has been tested on macOS Ventura and is compatible. Not only that but we have just a few weeks of testing left before our next release. MacVector 18.5 has been developed…

  • MacVector 18.2 is out! …and ready for macOS Monterey

    Overview We are very pleased to announce that MacVector 18.2 is available to download. MacVector 18.2 is a Universal Binary that runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. It is fully supported on macOS Sierra (10.12) to macOS Monterey (12). New features: Align to Reference Enhancements Context Sensitive Hamburger Menus Where a window has…

  • MacVector, Apple Silicon and macOS Big Sur compatibility

    UPDATE – March 8, 2021 – MacVector 18.1 is now released and can be downloaded. Over twenty years ago Apple called an end to the Classic Mac with the release of OS X, followed five years later by the transition from PowerPC to Intel. A major step forward in the Macintosh world. Earlier this year…

  • MacVector Training workshop at The Crick: Tuesday 17th March 2020

    Unfortunately due to the Covid19 outbreak this workshop is now cancelled. Keep safe and healthy everybody. The workshop, previously cancelled last year, is now rescheduled: Room: HR Training Room 01.2162. Floor: 1Date: 17th March 2020 – from 9:30 – 11:30 Chris Lindley of MacVector, Inc. will be giving a training workshop for both novice and…

  • Make more of your alignments with MacVector 17.5

    Our latest release MacVector 17.5 gives you new tools to make the most of your alignments. It displays shared domains in protein alignments to visualize the relationships between aligned proteins. It introduces Flye for de novo assembly of PacBio and Oxford Nanopore long reads and a slew of enhancements to the Contig and Align to…