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  • MacVector at ASM2015

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    We’ll be at the 115th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology from the 30th of May to the 2nd of June in New Orleans. We’re on booth 366. Please do drop by and say hello. We’ll be able to show you the upcoming release of MacVector 14 and other cool stuff. We’d also…

  • How to quickly design primers to amplify a feature on your sequence

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    To design a pair of primers to amplify a single feature is pretty quick with MacVector. Select a feature in the MAP tab Run Primer Design (Primer3) Ensure the dropdown menu is set to AMPLIFY FEATURE Click OK Check the summary shows that primers have been found and select the spreadsheet and graphical view Click…

  • Quickly checking a small sequencing project

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    For analysing large sequencing datasets, whether de novo or mapping reads against a reference you need Assembler. However, many times you do not need a powerful tool but just a quick way to check some sequencing data. For example for checking small sequencing projects, such as a site directed mutagenesis, looking for SNPs in a…

  • Upgrade MacVector with a 30% discount during April

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    Don’t be an April Fool, upgrade with a…. 30% discount … before MacVector 14 is released in May. This is no April Fool’s joke. Here’s a great way to upgrade your copy of MacVector before the release of MacVector 14 next month. For the entire month of April you will get a 30% discount on…

  • UNIX line endings for plain text files

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    Sometimes you may need to export data out of MacVector for further analysis with a command line tool or sending a file to a colleague who does not have MacVector). For example exporting the VCF report out of a reference assembly or exporting a sequence into Genbank format. If these files are plain text, then…

  • MacVector 13.5.3 is out

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    There’s a new release of MacVector out. If you are on OS X 10.10 to OS X 10.7 then just update through Sparkle as normal. However, we have seen issues doing that on Snow Leopard, so please use the downloadable installer instead. Ironically some of the bug fixes are for OS X 10.6, but there’s…

  • MacVector Talk: January 2015: A review of 2014 and what’s coming in 2015.

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    MacVector and Assembler: What’s Next! We strive to make MacVector the best sequence analysis app for the Mac. This means our developers are continually at work redesigning every aspect of MacVector, not only to improve functionality, but also to ensure that MacVector is always optimized for the latest versions of OS X. In addition we…

  • Restriction enzyme sites and tooltips.

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    EDIT: April 12, 2019 From MacVector 16 and later the setting for the Automatic RE Analysis is in: PREFERENCES | SCAN DNA | RESTRICTION SITES Quickly viewing the recognition sequence and cut site of a restriction site is very easy in the Map tab. If you hover your mouse over a restriction site in the Map…

  • MacVector, Yosemite and increasing dialog window sizes!

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    There’s a small bug in Yosemite that causes the size of the dialog windows to increase in size. MacVector is affected by this problem. Basically every time you use a dialog its size increases slightly. Over time the dialog becomes too large to fit on the screen and you will have problems clicking the buttons.…

  • A Black Friday/Cyber Monday special….Buy MacVector 13.5 and get one free.

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    MacVector 13.5 is the best release yet for comparing large sequences and handling NGS data. The new interface is even more polished and further performance tuning has ensured this release of MacVector is faster than ever. If you do not yet have MacVector then the next seven days are just for you. Starting from today,…