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  • Free teaching licenses!

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    It’s that time of year when summer is coming to a close and you need to get ready for teaching again! However, to make you feel a little better, did you know that you can get FREE licenses for teaching purposes? MacVector makes a great teaching tool and we offer free teaching licenses for anyone…

  • Online updating with Sparkle

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    Having to update software is an annoying, but essential, part of modern computing life! All software has bugs that need fixing and good software should add new features as well. We try with MacVector to do both, But that means that from time to time you will need to download and install a new version.…

  • MacVector at the NIH Research Festival April 23 – 24

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    For all of our NIH users: We will be at booth # 314 at the NIH Research Festival that is Wed. – Thurs.,  April 23 – 24. Please stop by for a demo of our new release, MacVector 13, and some other freebies, including discounted Easter candy!

  • MacVector 13 is almost out…..!

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    The next version of MacVector is almost ready to be released. MacVector 13 is more powerful and intuitive than ever. There’s not only some very useful new tools and features but MacVector 13 has had a redesign. A fresh new interface MacVector 13 looks great. The interface is now muted to suit the look and…

  • The oldest entries in Genbank? Some fun for Labor day.

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    Inspired by some tweets from @ewanbirney, because I’m waiting for lunch and because it’s Labor Day I used the Entrez tool to find the oldest entries (using the publication date field) in Genbank. For proteins there’s a single hit in 1979 For NA there’s 12 hits from 1982: Nothing useful here and it’s probably not…

  • Season’s greetings from the MacVector team

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    There is no time more fitting to say “Thank You” and to wish you a Happy Holiday Season and a New Year full of health, happiness, and great results from your research. Make sure you put down that pipette and relax , and if you’ve not updated to MacVector 12.7, make sure you take time…

  • BLAST is Fixed!

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    Thanks to our friends at the NCBI, BLAST is now working again!

  • MacVector 12.6 and Mountain Lion

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    The 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…

  • Importing features from a Genome Browser

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    (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…

  • ASM2012: San Francisco

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    We’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…