Applescripts
Many tools in MacVector can be automated with AppleScript. If you need to automate a workflow then please do contact support.
Utilities
Reset MacVector Preferences
MacVector tries to maintain your preference settings across releases so that when you update, you don’t lose any customizations you have made. However, sometimes this can cause unusual, and often hard to reproduce, errors and glitches. Resetting the Preferences can often resolve this issues. We previously had a utility that would reset your Preferences. However, as of MacVector 18.8 there is now a Reset Preferences button.
Please note that you will lose any customizations you have made and this action cannot be undone.
Reset The Graphics Palette
If your graphics palette disappears, you can reset it it using this utility;
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. (Read More and Download).
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.
If you are using MacVector 18.2 or later then you can directly import spreadsheets of primers
Version 2.0(3) has been completely rewritten and can read .csv, .tsv, .xls and .xlsx (Excel native) file formats as well as the MacVector .nsub primer database format. All data can be edited within a table interface after importing a file and the data can be exported in .csv, .tsv, .xlsx and .nsub formats. It requires a minimum of macOS 12.4 (Monterey).
REBaseConverter
You can use this utility to generate Restriction Enzyme files in MacVector format from REBase data files. Again it requires macOS 12.4 (Monterey) or later. You can download the raw data files in a suitable format for the utility from this REBASE link maintained by New England Biolabs.
XL2Fasta
If you keep your sequence files in Excel spreadsheets, then this utility allows you to convert the data to FastA format which is far more useful for importing into MacVector, or, indeed, many other sequence utilities.