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 Package: splatter
 Type: Package
 Title: Simple Simulation of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Data
-Version: 1.9.0
-Date: 2019-04-18
+Version: 1.8.0
+Date: 2019-05-03
 Author: Luke Zappia
 Authors@R:
     c(person("Luke", "Zappia", role = c("aut", "cre"),
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+# Version 1.8.0 (2019-05-03)
+
+* Bioconductor 3.9 release
+
 ## Version 1.7.5 (2018-04-18)
 
 * Add Splat parameters vignette