MacVector uses many third party tools. We endeavour to keep these tools up to date. Here's a historical table showing which tool versions are in current, and previous, versions of MacVector.
| Velvet | Phred/Phrap | Bowtie | SPAdes | Interproscan | Samtools | bcftools | htslib | Primer3 | Clustalw | T-Coffee | Muscle | Boost | Flye | Minimap2 | |
| MV 15.5.3 | 1.2.09 | 0.020426.c/1.080812 | 2.3.1 | -to enter- | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 2.3.7 | 2.1 | 8.99 | 3.8.31 | ||||
| MV 16 | 1.2.09 | 0.020426.c/1.080812 | 2.3.3 | 3.11 | 5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.3.7 | 2.1 | 8.99 | 3.8.31 | |||
| MV 17.0 | 1.2.09 | 071220.c/1.090518 | 2.3.4.2 | 3.12 | 5 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.3.7 | 2.1 | 8.99 | 3.8.31 | 1.67.0 | ||
| MV 18.0 | 1.2.09 | 071220.c/1.090518 | 2.3.4.2 | 3.12 | 5 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.3.7 | 2.1 | 8.99 | 3.8.31 | 1.67.0 | ||
| MV 18.5 | 1.2.09 | 071220.c/1.090518 | 2.3.4.2 | 3.12 | 5 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.5.0 | 2.1 | 8.99 | 3.8.31 | 1.67.0 | ||
| MV 18.6 | 1.2.09 | 071220.c/1.090518 | 2.3.4.2 | 3.12 | 5 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.5.0 | 2.1 | 8.99 | 3.8.31 | 1.67.0 | ||
| MV 18.7 | 1.2.09 | 071220.c/1.090518 | 2.5.3 | 3.12 | 5 | 1.20 | 1.20 | 1.20 | 2.5.0 | 2.1 | 8.99 | 3.8.31 | 1.67.0 | 2.26-r1175 |