MacVector news

Keeping your copy of MacVector up to date.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:50:22 GMT

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.

MacVector 11.1.2 just released

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:23:18 GMT

We’ve just released MacVector 11.1.2, which is a minor bug fix release.

Graphics In MacVector: Exporting publication quality graphics.

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:06:10 GMT

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, an alignment etc..

Post Survey Feedback

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:50:56 GMT

We’ve just finished going through the survey results. We’re very pleased with the amount and quality of feedback that you gave us. There’s some excellent ideas in there, that you’ll start seeing with the next release (MacVector 12 is out later this year). So once again thanks a lot to all who spent time to submit the survey.

Post ASM2010

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:50:13 GMT

We had a great time at the ASM2010 in San Diego this year. San Diego is a great town, and even better with a bunch of scientists gathering in the bars and restaurants! Many great people stopped by the booth. Both old MacVector users, new ones, and people just interested in our software.

MacVector at ASM 2010

Mon, 17 May 2010 10:13:46 GMT

The MacVector team will be attending the ASM 2010 meeting in San Diego. If you are attending then please do drop by booth 240 (near the laptop lounge) to say hello!

Flying for business is so 20th century!

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:39:29 GMT

The volcanic ash cloud covering most of Europe is a timely reminder of just how powerful nature is. With the disruption to air travel it’s also a great reminder of just how most communications can be done without meeting face to face. Whereas it is always nice to meet with MacVector users, any such visit inevitably involves substantial travel. With the tools available now, there’s almost no need to travel. We’d prefer to keep our travel costs down (& our software!) and the cost to the environment. We’re also sure you’d prefer to be in the lab, rather than being sat in a meeting!

Check out our new Getting Started Guide

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:15:18 GMT

There's a useful Getting Started Guide to help new users get going with MacVector.

Hidden labels in the Map view?

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:44:49 GMT

We made a whole slew of graphical enhancements to MacVector 11.1. Most of these were intended to increase the performance for viewing the graphical map of very large sequences.

One of these hides the labels of features when you are showing a heavily annotated sequence. However, in hindsight we set the default value for this to be too low! We'll change this for the next release but if this annoys you, then change the default to be 1000 instead. To do so go to the MacVector Preferences and change the value in the Map View preference

MacVector Survey for 2010

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:59:31 GMT

MacVector is being developed for Windows and we are very interested in your opinion. We are also looking for feedback on MacVector's current functionality and how this could be improved. We would be grateful if you could complete this survey. It should take less than 5 minutes of your time and all submitted entrants, with an email address, will be entered into a competition for an iPad. The survey will run until the end of May, 2010. The draw will take place on the 1st of June and the winner will be notified via email shortly afterwards.

MacVector 11.1 has just been released.

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:51:11 GMT

MacVector 11.1 has just been released. You can check out the new features of this release on this blog post or a fuller list is available here.

Existing customers can download and install it now. Although as usual you will be notified by MacVector’s online notifier in due course.

Graphical enhancements in MacVector 11.1

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:37:23 GMT

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.

Graphical enhancements in MacVector 11.1

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:37:23 GMT

What’s New in MacVector 11.1?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:35:12 GMT

As mentioned in the last few posts MacVector 11.1 is a release designed to consolidate and 'tweak' the many new features and changes that have been made over the last three years. In the main these changes are designed to simplify and speed up many common workflows as well as providing better integration with OS X and improving performance. However, there's also some longstanding bugs that have been fixed and as usual a great deal of these changes have been made in direct response to users' feedback. On that last point, as ever we encourage you to let us know what you think about MacVector, and whereas we always welcome emails to "support@macvector.com" and phone calls, we will be running a survey towards the end of this month to elicit feedback. The last survey we ran was quite a while ago now, and we got a some extremely valuable feedback. Incidentally we offered one of the new video iPods for one lucky winner last time, what cool new device from Apple could we offer this time.....!

We've mentioned a few of these changes over the last few posts, here's an overview of the notable ones.

Download the MacVector 11.1 beta

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:49:52 GMT

Check out the upcoming release of MacVector.

MacVector and Twitter

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:48:31 GMT

MacVector has started tweeting about new releases.

Updated manual available

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:38:53 GMT

The MacVector manual has been updated for version 11. There's an electronic version available, plus all eligible customers will be receiving a copy over the next few weeks.

What's to come in 2010!

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:21:06 GMT

A quick review of releases of what came in 2009, and what to expect in 2010. Oh and Happy New Year!

Auto Annotation in MacVector 11

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:14:06 GMT

How often have you received or downloaded a vector or other DNA sequence that has no annotations? New to MacVector is the ability to annotate a bare sequence, based on a library of template sequences.The auto annotation function will scan a folder full of existing annotated sequences and automatically add matching features to the bare sequence. Not only does the algorithm add the features, but it also copies the appearance information of the matching features so you can be assured that e.g. an ampicillin resistance gene is always a blue arrow, an M13 origin is always a striped red box etc.

Gateway Cloning in MacVector

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:00:57 GMT

MacVector 11.0.3 has just been released. This version introduces support for Gateway and TOPO cloning manipulations to MacVector's Click Cloning tool. This allows you to simulate and document Gateway and TOPO constructs using a simple point and click interface.

Blog Post: Auto Annotation in MacVector 11

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:07:27 GMT

Blog Post: MacVector 11 and Snow Leopard

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:59:50 GMT

Snow Leopard is released on Friday the 28th of August. MacVector 11 has also just been released and is fully tested and supported on OS X 10.6.

What's coming in MacVector 11

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:55:30 GMT

A brief rundown of what's coming in MacVector 11, which is currently in the last stages of beta testing.

Blog Post: Upgrade your Dongle to MacVector 11

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:54:42 GMT

A one time offer to get rid of your old MacVector dongle and upgrade to MacVector 11

An overview of aligning sequences in MacVector

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:05:18 GMT

Here's a rundown of all the different methods that you acan use to align sequences in MacVector. Including aligning cDNAs to a genomic sequence.

Blog Post: MacVector at the ASM

Fri, 15 May 2009 16:53:32 GMT

MacVector will be attending the American Society for Microbiology meeting in Philadephia. Be sure to stop by the MacVector booth (304).

MacVector blog now running!

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:33:30 GMT

We've started writing a blog to better communicate with users of MacVector. Expect to see tips, techniques, and updates on what's coming next with MacVector.

MacVector 10.6 released

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:06:23 GMT

MacVector 10.6 has just been released, which has a new VectorNTI database browser that allows MacVector to import sequences DIRECTLY from your VectorNTI database, without any need to copy or archive files. All sequence features and related information are preserved. MacVector follows the Genbank format for the features table and is always kept up to date with the latest Genbank release, so where possible MacVector will also migrate any old and deprecated features information contained in the VectorNTI file into the current up to date features nomenclature. This release also includes enhancements and optimizations to assembly algorithms.

VectorNTI DB browser coming soon.

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:12:33 GMT

MacVector 10.6 (due out in April, 2009) has a new VectorNTI database browser that allows MacVector to import sequences DIRECTLY from your VectorNTI database, without any need to copy or archive files. All sequence features and related information are preserved. MacVector follows the Genbank format for the features table and is always kept up to date with the latest Genbank release, so where possible MacVector will also migrate any old and deprecated features information contained in the VectorNTI file into the current up to date features nomenclature. There's also discounts for 'upgrading' to MacVector.

MacVector 10.5.3 releases

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:28:00 GMT

MacVector 10.5.3 has just been released. This includes some translation bug fixes and a few other minor fixes. It is a recommended upgrade for all MacVector 10.5 users.

Switch from Vector NTI to MacVector!

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:49:57 GMT

Annoyed that Vector NTI is no longer free for Academics? Thinking about moving away from Vector NTI to a modern sequence analysis application? Do you want to run on a recent version of OS X? If so, you may be interested in a special offer we have for ex Vector NTI users. As a competitive upgrade offer, we will give you a 25% discount on a new MacVector license if you have been using the free academic Vector NTI license, or a 50% discount if you have been using a paid Vector NTI license.

MacVector 10.5.2 has been released

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:42:17 GMT

MacVector 10.5.2 was released last week. This is mainly a bug fix release to MacVector 10.5, although it introduces support for the standard GenBank /codon_start qualifier to define the start frame of a coding region. This is useful when annotating exons in eukaryotic sequences where the triplet codons may not be in phase due to the presence of introns. MacVector 10.5.2 is a recommended update for all MacVector 10.5 users:

MacVector 10.5.1 released

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:40:30 GMT

MacVector 10.5 has been updated to 10.5.1. This contains a few minor bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade for all MacVector 10.5 users.

MacVector 10.5 released

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:42:37 GMT

MacVector 10.5 has just been released. This has some great new features including being able to align cDNA sequences against genome sized ones, accurately showing exon/intron boundaries. Other new features include support for long filenames, universal file reading, full OS X toolbar customization, a single preferences dialogue and many others. Visit our website to learn about the new features in this release.

MacVector 10.5 available for download by qualified customers

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:41:36 GMT

MacVector 10.5 is now available for download by qualified customers. To run MacVector 10.5, you must have a maintenance contract with MacVector Inc that was active on October 1st 2008, or have purchased an upgrade since that time. Please also note that MacVector 10.5 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Updated Screencasts of the new features in MacVector 10.5

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:59:30 GMT

The MacVector 10.5 release is just coming out of beta testing. As we get closer to the release we'll be showing the new features here. Currently there's a video on cDNA Alignments and Splice Site Identification. This allows you to align cDNA clones against a corresponding genomic sequence and automatically identify the introns and exons.

MacVector 10.5 in beta to be released shortly

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:03:36 GMT

MacVector 10.5 is undergoing final testing. Visit this page to learn about the new features in this release. This has some cool new features including alignment of cDNAs against genomic sequences.

upcoming MacVector newsletter

sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Click this link to subscribe to our quarterly newsletter. This is filled with news of updates to MacVector and useful tips and how tos. The newsletter will be starting to coincide with the MacVector 10.5 release

MacVector 10.0 Feedback

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Found a bug in MacVector 10.0? Want to make a comment or request a new feature or enhancement? Use this form.

MacVector 10.0.2 Updater

wed, 20 aug 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Existing MacVector 10.0 or 10.0.1 users should follow this link to download an updater for the latest 10.0.2 release.

MacVector 10.0 Getting Started Guide.

wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT

There's a new tutorial to help you understand how to work with the new features in MacVector 10. Visit this page to download a PDF.

Student Licenses Now Available.

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT

If you are a student at an accredited institution, you can now get your own personal copy of MacVector.

Special offer for Vector NTI users.

fri, 02 may 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Upgrade to MacVector at 50% discount if you have a VectorNTI commercial license