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Label customisation using metatags in the Map View
Read more: Label customisation using metatags in the Map ViewMacVector has always given the user great control in being able to customise the map’s appearance. By default the label will show the full text description of a feature and all its qualifiers (see the first metatag in the list below). However, the label can contain whatever text you want it to display. Obviously you…
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Displaying your sequence how you want to display it.
Read more: Displaying your sequence how you want to display it.We’re all different and one researcher’s preferred way of viewing their sequence may be the opposite of their lab mate’s. With MacVector we try to give you the flexibility of viewing a sequence how you want you view it. With the replica button it’s easy to show multiple views of the same sequence. With a…
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MacVector 12: Annotating the sequence in the Editor View.
Read more: MacVector 12: Annotating the sequence in the Editor View.This is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 In the last survey a popular request was to be able to change the case, alter the colour, or otherwise being able to annotate sequence directly in the Editor view. You’ve been able to use the Map…
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Renumbering a sequence
Read more: Renumbering a sequenceTo change the numbering of a MacVector sequence hover the mouse over the ‘red’ cross (or number) that appears at the beginning of a sequence. This will change to a hand. Double click and enter the new start number in the dialog that appears. You may also drag the red cross to a place in…
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MacVector 12: Changes to the Find dialogue
Read more: MacVector 12: Changes to the Find dialogueThis is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 The find dialogue is a nondescript but fairly essential tool of any sequence analysis application. With uses such as finding short sections in your sequence to quickly searching for a primer it is probably one of the…
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MacVector 12.0.2 has just been released
Read more: MacVector 12.0.2 has just been releasedDownload it here. This contains a few bugs fixes that surfaced after the 12.0.1 release.
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MacVector 12: Ensuring your license is up to date
Read more: MacVector 12: Ensuring your license is up to dateMacVector 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…
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MacVector 12: New features for Click Cloning and Restriction Enzyme analysis
Read more: MacVector 12: New features for Click Cloning and Restriction Enzyme analysisThis 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…
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MacVector 12: Creating features from results
Read more: MacVector 12: Creating features from resultsThis 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…
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MacVector12: Forwards (and backwards!) compatibility of MacVector files
Read more: MacVector12: Forwards (and backwards!) compatibility of MacVector filesMacVector 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…
