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Are you teaching a Molecular Biology Course this year?
Read more: Are you teaching a Molecular Biology Course this year?Many MacVector users don’t realize that we offer FREE licenses for teaching purposes. If you or your lab owns a license of MacVector 12 with a current maintenance contract, you are eligible. If you are teaching a course this year and are in the process of preparing your course content, consider using MacVector as a…
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MacVector 12.0.5 is out
Read more: MacVector 12.0.5 is outMacVector 12.0.5 is a cumulative patch release that fixes a few bugs in MacVector 12.0.4 and includes all the bug fixes since 12.0 was released. If you have a current maintenance contract with MacVector (as of Dec 1st 2010), you can download the updater for MacVector 12.0.5.
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Updated Gateway Restriction Enzyme file
Read more: Updated Gateway Restriction Enzyme fileHere’s an updated restriction enzyme file for Gateway cloning with MacVector.
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MacVector and upgrading to Lion.
Read more: MacVector and upgrading to Lion.The latest version of OS X, Lion, has been out for a few weeks and it’s a great operating system. MacVector 12 has been tested and although not yet officially supported, it works great.. Nonetheless even though we’ve not yet come across any issues we are committed to fixing bugs. So if you are running…
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Designing primers that do not bind at multiple places in your template
Read more: Designing primers that do not bind at multiple places in your templateThe default settings for Primer3 do not actually check for whether a primer will bind at multiple places in the template. To turn this on use the PRIMER vs PRODUCT setting in the PRIMER BINDING tab (the Primer3 parameter is “PRIMER_MAX_TEMPLATE_MISPRIMING”). The default value is -1, which means do not check. Change this to 1…
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MacVector, Assembler and network licensing.
Read more: MacVector, Assembler and network licensing.We recently changed the way that Assembler network licenses are shared out to make it easier for many users to share a single license. Previously an Assembler license was checked out whenever you loaded MacVector with Assembler. However, now an Assembler license is only checked out when you start a new assembly project or open…
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MacVector on OS X 10.7 Lion
Read more: MacVector on OS X 10.7 LionLion was released through the App Store earlier today. Although MacVector has not gone through a full round of testing, our initial tests on development builds and the released version shows that there are no bugs, or at least no obvious ones! Here’s the coolest feature of Lion, Mission Control. Technorati Tags: MacVector
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Updated Restriction Enzyme files
Read more: Updated Restriction Enzyme filesThere are a few updated restriction enzyme files available for download. This file contains the latest Gateway and TOPO sites, and this file is contains the Common Enzymes file together with the updated sites. You can read about how to do Gateway cloning with MacVector here. Incidentally you can select multiple sites for copying by…
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Hiding Tooltips in the Editor.
Read more: Hiding Tooltips in the Editor.A feature new to MacVector 12 is the ability to both annotate and display features directly in the Editor, without having to open a separate Map view window. There are also tooltips that show the feature on the sequence directly under the mouse cursor. For example in the following screenshot you see the ID of…
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MacVector 12: Drag and Drop annotation of your sequences
Read more: MacVector 12: Drag and Drop annotation of your sequencesThis is in a series of blog posts on interesting highlights of new features added to MacVector 12 If you click and drag a result from a results map to a sequence window it will be annotated as a feature. For example dragging a primer from a primer results map will annotate that primer as…
