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  • MacVector 12.0.2 has just been released

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    Download it here. This contains a few bugs fixes that surfaced after the 12.0.1 release.

  • MacVector 12: Ensuring your license is up to date

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    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…

  • MacVector 12: New features for Click Cloning and Restriction Enzyme analysis

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    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…

  • MacVector 12: Creating features from results

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    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…

  • MacVector12: Forwards (and backwards!) compatibility of MacVector files

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    MacVector is very good at forward compatibility with sequence files. We do strive to ensure that all versions of MacVector will open files created by earlier versions. In fact MacVector 12 will still open files created by the very first version of MacVector! Backwards compatibility is more complicated as due to our policy of continuous…

  • Preview release of MacVector 12

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    MacVector 12.0 is almost ready for release and you can download a preview release here. The full release will be out shortly. There’s a lot of great new features in MacVector 12. Virtual Cloning is much easier with auto detection of compatible sites. The whole interface has been reworked with a graphical overview of your…

  • Copying subsequences from larger sequences.

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    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…

  • Aligning primers against a template sequence

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    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.…

  • ANOTHER NOVEMBER SPECIAL OFFER: Buy or upgrade MacVector and receive Assembler for free…..

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    Quite a few users have asked why we are only having an offer to upgrade old network licenses rather than any licenses. We do not want to upset people and so we’re allowing anybody who upgrades a standard license in November to receive a free copy of Assembler when they do so. We’re also being…

  • Clustering an alignment

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    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…