

Getting Started with MacVector: An overview of primer design workflows in MacVector.Melissa Caimano on HOW DO I video guides to common molecular biology workflows.admin on HOW DO I video guides to common molecular biology workflows.mariam abdelmalak on Major release details – Summary.Brian on Designing primers and documenting In-Fusion Cloning with MacVector.Chris on Designing primers and documenting In-Fusion Cloning with MacVector.MacVectorTip: Designing Primers for Gibson Assembly.MacVectorTip: Simulating mixed plasmid populations in agarose gels.MacVectorTip: How to find Restriction Enzymes that only cut outside of a specific region.Simulating DNA electrophoresis in agarose gels using MacVector’s Agarose Gel tool.

Primers will be designed to amplify each fragment. Set the desired 'Target T m ' for the 'PCR primers' for each fragment, and for the 'overlapping ends'. MacVectorTip: How to copy a specific short amino acid translation of a sequence Switch to the 'Fused Template' tab and click Choose Overlapping Primers.MacVector will directly import many file formats such as common sequence formats such as Genbank, FASTA, FASTQ plus from software packages such as Sequencher Projects and Serial Cloner, For example you may prefer features to be displayed on just those two levels instead of being distributed over the multiple levels as per the default settings. However, MacVector’s graphics are highly customizable and you can adjust the graphical settings to display the plasmid exactly as you want. This sequence was opened using the MacVector defaults. It’s been opened directly in MacVector by double clicking the file. Here’s a plasmid sequence downloaded from the Addgene website in Snapgene format. However, Snapgene will always place features on the same two levels and so features sometimes overlap. For example MacVector has multiple levels (up to six) outside and inside a plasmid and will always try to place features so that no feature overlaps another. However, there are some aspects to the display that are not the same between the two applications. The colors of features will be the same as the original. The fragments are ligated in vivo after transformation into E. During the In-Fusion reaction, the exonuclease activity from the polymerase chews back the 3’ ends, exposing the overlapping nucleotides. When you import a Snapgene file the appearance will be very similar. PCR primers are designed with an added 5’ tail to create 15 to 20 base pair overlaps between the fragments you intend to clone. This is very useful when downloading plasmid sequences from the wonderful Addgene plasmid repository. You just need to use FILE | OPEN or double click the file. MacVector will directly import SnapGene DNA files.
