What is MacPlasmap?

If your study or research involves preparation of circular plasmid maps, MacPlasmap may be the tool for you. It draws, stores, and prints high-quality circular plasmid maps with the data you specify. As a molecular biologist and a Macintosh user, you have probably tried to do this on a Macintosh computer, and you may have been aware of the following inherent difficulties:

• Precise positioning of restriction sites and genes on a circle.
• Attaching an arc (representing a gene) onto a circle.
• Drawing maps of different sizes based on related, previous maps.
• Converting one type of map to a different type.

MacPlasmap is designed to overcome all of the above while still retaining other essential features of a drawing program. As a stand-alone Macintosh application, MacPlasmap supports such common facilities as data entry, saving, retrieving, and printing. If necessary, plasmid maps produced by MacPlasmap can be transferred to other advanced drawing programs for modifications. Keeping plasmid data on disk or in printed form also makes it easy to organize plasmid construction information consistently. Consequently, you can use MacPlasmap both as a plasmid data manager and a plasmid drawing aid.

Liu, Jingdong. (1990). MacPlasmap Manual. (pg. 1).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 4.1 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Minimum Requirements

• Macintosh 512K
• System 4.1

Note: Compatible with Macintosh II and MultiFinder

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II