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MacVector and macOS Mojave
Read more: MacVector and macOS MojaveApple released macOS Mojave today (Tuesday 25th September). Over the past few months we have performed preliminary testing with MacVector 16.0.9 on various development releases of macOS Mojave through its development cycle and all appears to be well. So whereas we cannot state MacVector is compatible until it is officially released, we can say that…
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Free MacVector Teaching licenses
Read more: Free MacVector Teaching licensesDid you know that MacVector, Inc. offers FREE licenses for teaching purposes? If you are in the process of either preparing your lab for the upcoming year, or preparing for the courses you need to teach then don’t forgot that MacVector makes a great teaching tool. We offer free teaching licenses for anyone with an…
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NOW CANCELLED MacVector are at the NIH Research Festival
Read more: NOW CANCELLED MacVector are at the NIH Research FestivalNIH Research Festival Tent show September 13-14, 2018 Due to the forecast storm the Tent Show has been postponed. As soon as we know the rescheduled date we’ll update. We’re at the NIH Research Festival this week. Please drop by our booth on Thursday or Friday, when the big, white exhibitors tent is open. We’re…
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MacVector and future releases of macOS
Read more: MacVector and future releases of macOSThe next OS release for the Mac will arrive later this year. MacOS Mojave is a significant OS upgrade and includes a lot of new features, especially when compared with the differences between OS X El Capitan, macOS Sierra and macOS High Sierra. Our developers have been hard at work ensuring that when macOS Mojave…
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RNASeq Expression Analysis with MacVector and Assembler
Read more: RNASeq Expression Analysis with MacVector and AssemblerIf you have the Assembler module, MacVector can align millions of NGS reads from RNASeq experiments against large genomes and generate a coverage table displaying the relative expression levels of every gene in a genome. The key to this functionality is that you must have a reference genome with genes annotated as CDS or gene…
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How to split large fastq files for more manageable assemblies
Read more: How to split large fastq files for more manageable assembliesWe’ve previously discussed how important it can be to make sure you are using the appropriate number of fastq reads from an NGS experiment to ensure you obtain the results you are looking for. Using too many reads can confuse algorithms with the massive coverage increasing mis-assemblies due to background errors in the reads. In…
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Balancing Velvet KMER and coverage
Read more: Balancing Velvet KMER and coverageThe Velvet assembly algorithm in MacVector is blazingly fast and generates excellent assemblies. However, you do have to be careful when assembling NGS data to be sure that the parameters you submit are appropriate for the data you are assembling in order to get optimal results. By far the most important parameter is the KMER…
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Use a right-click in the Editor tab to see if your contig can be circularized
Read more: Use a right-click in the Editor tab to see if your contig can be circularizedMacVector 16 incorporates no less than THREE different de novo assemblers, phrap, velvet and SPAdes. While all are great assemblers, with each having their own specific advantages, none of them will generate a circular sequence from input reads. However, MacVector 16 also includes a new feature to help you with this. If you are assembling…
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Getting Started with MacVector
Read more: Getting Started with MacVectorAny molecular biologist should be able to start getting useful results within an hour of starting to use MacVector by just exploring the toolbar and menus. Everything is logically named to be obvious. However, there’s still a lot of functionality that a user will never know exists. That is unless you read the manual or…
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The MacVector Team are at ASM Microbe 2018 in Atlanta this week.
Read more: The MacVector Team are at ASM Microbe 2018 in Atlanta this week.We’re at ASM Microbe 2018 in Atlanta from Friday until Sunday (8–10th June). The exhibit hall hours are again different from the last two years. Friday, June 8th – 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM Sat. June 9th – 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM Sunday, June 10th – 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM We’re on booth…
