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Tutorials

Use these tutorials to learn more about MacVector and Assembler. They are in PDF format and can be read using the Mac OS X Preview application or Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Compressed Tutorial Documents

MacVector Getting Started Workshop Manual

Reset The Graphics Palette

If your graphics palette disappears, you can reset it it using this utility;

Download Reset Graphics Palette.app.zip

Fastq File Splitting Utility

Use this utility of you want to split Fastq files into smaller chunks. Simply drag one or more fastq files onto the application icon and follow the instructions. For more information on this, check out this page.

Download SplitFastqFile.app.zip

Latest Auxiliary Files (June 2015)

MacVector ships with a number of "auxiliary" files - Restriction Enzymes, Scoring Matrices, Common Vector etc that are installed in folders alongside the main MacVector application. From time to time, we update these files to include new enzymes or additional vectors. However, our new online "Sparkle" updater only updates the MacVector application itself, it does not update the auxiliary files. The link below is a zipped file containing all of the updated files for MacVector 14.0. You can take advantage of these files even if you are running an earlier version of MacVector. Download the file and then extract it in you downloads folder. A "MacVector" folder will be created - inside that you will find all of the auxiliary file folders. Simply drag all of those that you are interested in into your existing active /Applications/MacVector/ folder to replace the old versions.

Download MacVector Auxuliary Files

MacVector 17.0.0 Installer

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on November 1st 2018, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 17.0 release. You can download the latest installer from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector | About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 17.0.

MacVector 16.0.10 Installer

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on September 1st 2017, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 16.0 release. You can download the latest installer from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector | About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 16.0.

MacVector 15.5.4 Installer

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on February 1st 2017, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 15.5 release. You can download the latest installer from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector | About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 15.5.

MacVector 15.1.3 Installer

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on August 1st 2016, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 15.1 release. You can download the latest installer from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector | About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 15.1.

MacVector 15.0.3 Installer

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on June 1st 2016, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 14 release. You can download the latest installer from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector | About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 15.0.

MacVector 14.5.3 Installer

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on November 1st 2015, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 14.5 release. You can download the latest installer from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector | About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 14.5.

MacVector 14.0.6 Installer

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on February 1st 2015, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 14 release. You can download the latest installer from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector | About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 14.0.

MacVector 13.5.5 Installer

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on September 1st 2014, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 13 release. You can download the latest installer from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector | About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 13.5.

MacVector Workshop Manual (version 13.5)

This document introduces you to many of the new functions and features added in MacVector 10.0 through 13.5 using a hands-on tutorial approach.

MacVector 13.5 Workshop

MacVector 13.0.7 Installer

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on October 1st 2013, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 13 release. You can download the latest installer from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector | About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 13.

PrimerConverter

There's a blog article on how you can use this utility to create a."Primer Database" from an Excel spreadsheet of primers. You can then use that database to quickly scan any sequence for primer binding sites using the Nucleic Acid Subsequence analysis function.

NOTE: This is version 2.0.1, posted on August 7th 2013. This fixes some issues where primers would get displayed in the wrong location in the Map results window if the match was to the minus strand. If you downloaded a previous version, you should replace it with this version.

PrimerConverter 2.0.1

MacVector 12.6 Updater

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on May 1st 2012, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 12.6 release. You can download the latest updater from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector->About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 12.6.

MacVector 12.6 User Guide

Here's the latest electronic version of the User Guide, updated to include the functionality added to MacVector 12.5 and 12.6.

MacVector 12.6 User Guide

MacVector 12.5.1 Updater

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on October 1st 2011, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 12.5 release. You can download the latest updater from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector->About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 12.5.

MacVector 12.0.6 Updater

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on December 1st 2010, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 12 release. You can download the latest updater from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector->About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 12. There's also a blog article on the new release.

MacVector 11.1.2 Updater

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on December 1st 2009, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 11.1.2 release. You can download the updater from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector->About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 11.1 and here for the bug fixes in MacVector 11.1.2. There's also a blog article on the new release.

Getting Started Guide

Need help just getting going with MacVector, importing sequences and running your first analysis? Want to create new cloning vectors and don't know how to start? Download our new Getting Started Guide

MacVector Workshop Manual (version 12.5)

This document introduces you to many of the new functions and features added in MacVector 10.0 through 12.5 using a hands-on tutorial approach.

MacVector 12.5 Workshop

MacVector 11 Updater

If you had a valid maintenance contract with MacVector, Inc on July 1st 2009, you are eligible to receive the MacVector 11.0 release. You can download the updater from this link. To determine if your license will be valid, choose the MacVector->About MacVector menu item - the resulting dialog will display your license details, including the date your maintenance agreement will expire. Click here for more details of the changes and new features in MacVector 11.

MacVector 10.6 Updater

All MacVector 10.5 users (including MacVector 10.5.1, 10.5.2 and 10.5.3) should immediately upgrade to version 10.6 using this installer. The new version combines all of the bug fixes and also adds support for reading Vector NTI database files.

Screencasts

Check out these videos of common workflows in MacVector.

Older Updaters

MacVector 9.5.2

This updater will upgrade MacVector 9.5, MacVector 9.5.1, MacVector+Assembler 9.5 or MacVector+Assembler 9.5.1 to version 9.5.2. The updater will NOT work on any previous versions of MacVector. Please contact sales@macvector.com if you wish to upgrade an earlier version. The download is a disk image file and should extract and mount automatically. Double-click on the MacVector 9.5.2 Updater application and follow the on-screen instructions. See the MacVector 9.5.2 Release Notes

MacVector 9.5.2 Updater

MacVector 9.0.2

This updater will upgrade MacVector 9.0 or MacVector 9.0.1 to the latest release, MacVector 9.0.2. The updater will NOT work on any previous versions of MacVector. Please contact sales@macvector.com if you wish to upgrade an earlier version. The download is a disk image file - double-click on it to mount the MacVector 9.0.1 updater disk if it does not mount automatically, then double-click on the MacVector 9.0.2 Updater application and follow the on-screen instructions to upgrade your copy.

MacVector 9.0.2 Updater

MacVector 8.1.2

This updater will upgrade any release of MacVector 8.x to 8.1.2, the last release in the MacVector 8.x series. MacVector 8.1.2 is the last version of MacVector capable of running under Mac OS 9. This updater will not work on versions of MacVector prior to version 8.0. It is supplied as a stuffit archive, meaning that you must have the free Stuffit Expander application installed on your computer to be able to extract the files. Once the files have been extracted, double-click on the MacVector 8.1.2 Updater application and follow the on-screen instructions to upgrade your copy.

MacVector 8.1.2 Updater

MacVector 7.2.3

This updater will upgrade any release of MacVector 7.1.x or 7.2.x to version 7.2.3. This updater will not work on versions of MacVector prior to version 7.1. It is supplied as a stuffit archive, meaning that you must have the free Stuffit Expander application installed on your computer to be able to extract the files. Once the files have been extracted, double-click on the MacVector 7.2.3 Updater application and follow the on-screen instructions to upgrade your copy.

MacVector 7.2.3 Updater

 

Utility Applications

These utilities are provided "AS IS". If you do find bugs, please let us know and we will fix them when we get chance. However, please do not rely on them for critical applications. Unless otherwise specified, these are universal binaries that require a minimum of OS X 10.4.

REBaseConverter

You can use this utility to generate Restriction Enzyme files in MacVector formatfrom REBase data files. You can download the raw data files in a suitable format for the utility from this REBASE link maintained by New England Biolabs.

Download REBASEConverter

 

Support Files

Restriction Enzymes

This zipped folder contains the latest release of the REBASE Restriction Enzyme Database (release 606 from May 2016), formatted for use with MacVector. After you download the file, it should appear as a folder in your downloads folder. Copy the Restriction Enzyme files from within the downloaded folder into your MacVector Restriction Enzymes folder.

Restriction Enzymes (May 2016)

Methylated Restriction Enzyme Sites

This restriction enzyme file contains a list of recognition sites of enzymes that are blocked by either the E. coli Dam or Dcm methylase activities. The name of each recognition site is preceded by either "DAM-" or "DCM-" indicating the methylase that will block activity. For more information on how to use this file to identify cleavage sites that will be blocked by the methylase activity, please check out this blog post.

Methylation-Sensitive Restriction Enzymes.renz.

MacVector 17.0 Installer

MacVector 16.0 Installer

MacVector 15.5 Installer

MacVector 15.1 Installer

MacVector 15.0 Installer

MacVector 14.5 Installer

MacVector 14.0 Installer

MacVector 13.5 Installer

MacVector 13 Installer

MacVector 12.7 Updater

PrimerConverter

MacVector 12.6 User Guide

MacVector 12.6 Updater

MacVector 12.5.1 Updater

MacVector 12 User Guide

MacVector 12.0.6 Updater

MacVector 11.1.2 Updater

MacVector Workshop Manual

Quickstart Guide

MacVector 11.0.4 Updater

MacVector 10.6 Updater

MacVector 11 User Guide

Screencasts

Older Updaters

Data Sheets

Tutorials

Utility Applications

Support Files