What's new in Serial Cloner 2.1 (see the available contextual help window to get more details on new functions)


- [NEW] Define user's Feature Collection
- [NEW] Handling of amino acid-based Features
- [NEW] Import external Features collections (Serial Cloner Format, Generic table format, ApE format)
- [NEW] Export Features Collections
- [NEW] Export Sequences in GenBank format (with Features)
- [NEW] Directly send BLAST request to NCBI.
- [NEW] Open degenerate Fasta sequences
- [NEW] A companion Software to Reset Serial Cloner Preferences in case of problem.
- [NEW] A companion Software to transform MacVector files to Genbank format compatible with Serial Cloner (from Davide Cittaro)
- [ADDED] Search for a peptide sequence using the Find window.
- [ADDED] Display Features in the Sequence Map window.
- [ADDED] Scan for Features directly in the Sequence Map window
- [ADDED] Create a Feature from a translated sequence
- [ADDED] New "Copy Formatted (Full Seq + Features)" menu to copy the Sequence as formatted in the Sequence Window (Copy More? menu)
- [ADDED] New "Copy as Genbank (Full Seq + Features)" menu (Copy More? menu)
- [ADDED] New Preference to set-up the minimum size of an ORF to be used when searching for all ORFs.
- [ADDED] New Preference to set-up the character size to be used in the Sequence Window
- [ADDED] New Preference to show or not the reverse strand by default in the Sequence Map
- [ADDED] New peptide Features added to Serial Cloner collection for automatic scan (e.g. tags like myc, HA, TEV sites, etc.)
- [ADDED] An pop-up drawing to illustrate cloning using the Build a Construct window (available by clicking the circled i in the window)
- [ADDED] Warns the user when using the Anti-Parallel, Reverse or Complement commands on only a portion of the sequence
- [UPDATED] Resizing the Sequence Window is now possible
- [UPDATED] Handling of Feature inheritance when sub-cloning (Build a Construct, Gateway)
- [UPDATED] List the ORF from the largest to smallest when searching for all ORFs
- [UPDATED] Better handling of scrolling when customizing display in the Sequence map window.
- [UPDATED] New Keystrokes can be used to select for Particular Enzymes in the Sequence Map (ARROWS, ENTER, ESC)
- [UPDATED] Improved parsing of Genbank sequences using the Web Access Window
- [UPDATED] Copying/Pasting now tries to keep Features
- [UPDATED] Better handling of scrolling of the RE list window
- [UPDATED] Better parsing of sequence when pasting a NCBI web page in a Sequence window.
- [UPDATED] Better handling of very short (few nucleotides) features.
- [UPDATED] Menu modification :  a new 'Features' menu has been added and Export functions are grouped together in the File menu
- [UPDATED] Menu modification :  a 'Copy More...' menu has been created to put together alternative Copy functions 
- [CORRECTED] Scrolling problems in the Sequence Window when selecting a large fragment.
- [CORRECTED] Detection of Att site when right at fragment extremities.
- [CORRECTED] Handling of type IIs enzymes
- [CORRECTED] Handling of Features when using the Anti-Parallel, Reverse or Complement commands
- [CORRECTED] Setting-up cohesive ends in the shRNA layout window
- [CORRECTED] A bug that made the HelpWindow appear "randomly"
- [CORRECTED] Various interface glitches
- [CORRECTED] Much improved Linux version (although still not officially supported)