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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #3 – The Importance of Topology
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #3 – The Importance of TopologyMacVector 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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Upgrade or purchase a new license in August 2012 and receive a 10% discount.
Read more: Upgrade or purchase a new license in August 2012 and receive a 10% discount.To celebrate the recent release of MacVector 12.6 and the release of Mountain Lion we are offering a 10% discount on all new licenses and upgrades throughout August. Here are some of the new features in MacVector 12.6. If you like what you see and are interested in purchasing a license, or upgrading an existing…
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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #2 – Option-click to open the Default Symbol editor
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #2 – Option-click to open the Default Symbol editorIf 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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101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #1 – Downloading BLAST Hits from the NCBI
Read more: 101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #1 – Downloading BLAST Hits from the NCBIWhen you use MacVector to run a BLAST search, did you know that you can download any matching sequences directly from the BLAST Description List window? Simply select text on any part of the line(s) representing the sequence you want to download; Then use the menu item Database | Retrieve to Disk to download any…
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MacVector 12.6 and Mountain Lion
Read more: MacVector 12.6 and Mountain LionThe eagerly awaited Mountain Lion was released last week in the App Store. We’ve conducted initial testing with MacVector 12.6 on Mountain Lion. Our testing has found only a single fairly minor issue concerned with installation. So far there are no issues with any day to day functionality. The downloadable disk image does not automatically…
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QuickTest Primer: Designing Primers in MacVector
Read more: QuickTest Primer: Designing Primers in MacVectorMacVector has a brand new tool for designing primers. QuickTest Primer completely changes the way primers can be designed on a computer. It simplifies primer design by showing your primer and its statistics in realtime. Does your primer have a hairpin? Nudge it along your template until the hairpin goes? Want to add a restriction…
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MacVector 12.6: Coming soon..
Read more: MacVector 12.6: Coming soon..Our upcoming release, MacVector 12.6, has just entered beta testing. As usual we’ve added a mixture of new features as well as improvements to existing tools. One tool that we are excited about is a realtime primer design tool. This allows you to manipulate your primer and see secondary structure and other useful oligo statistics…
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Importing features from a Genome Browser
Read more: Importing features from a Genome Browser(updated March 21, 2018) MacVector’s Import Features tool allows you to import annotation from many Genome Browsers (e.g. Ensemble, UCSC, etc). MacVector can annotate an empty or annotated sequence. BED, GFF, GTF, and GFF3 formats GFF, GTF, GFF3 & BED files are all file formats that are used to store annotation (features) generally without containing any…
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ASM2012: San Francisco
Read more: ASM2012: San FranciscoWe’ll be at the 112th ASM meeting in San Francisco this year from June 16 – 19, 2012. Come visit us if you are at the show. Our booth at the ASM will be 936. We’ll be demoing MacVector 12.6 which will be released about that date. You’ll also be able to pick up demo…
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Showing features as bases or a translation in a plasmid map
Read more: Showing features as bases or a translation in a plasmid mapEverybody has different tastes and giving everybody identical plasmid maps is unfair! So MacVector is designed to be as flexible as possible to allow you to make your maps look like YOU want then to look. In this theme was a recent change where appropriate features can be shown as residues when there is sufficient…
