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Introduction to Golden Gate Cloning
MacVector 26 (released July 2026) saw the addition of Golden Gate Cloning to the Cloning Project Manager. Golden Gate Cloning is a molecular cloning technique that enables the seamless, orderedassembly of multiple DNA fragments into a single construct in one reaction. Its defining featureis the use of Type IIS restriction enzymes, which recognize specific asymmetric…
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MacVector 26 has just been released!
MacVector 26 was released last week (13 July 2026) and it’s a significant release. MacVector 26 has new features for designing and documenting cloning workflows and for managing your sequences. The new Cloning Project Manager allows you to design Golden Gate Cloning workflows. So along with Ligase Independent Cloning, Gibson Assembly and traditional restriction enzyme…
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MacVector 26: Understanding macOS sandboxing
For many years now, Apple has encouraged developers to create applications that run in a “Sandbox” on macOS. In fact, for the last few years, any application downloaded from the Apple App Store must be set to run in a sandbox. This protects your computer and your data from intentional or accidental data access or…
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MacVectorTip: Highlighting regions of a sequence in the Editor tab
Sometimes it’s a simple visualization of your sequence that you need or you want to quickly annotate an interesting part of your sequence to investigate later. So in addition to displaying a rich visual representation of your sequence and its features in the Map tab, MacVector can also show specific regions directly in the Editor tab. For instance, you…