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 Package: splatter
 Type: Package
 Title: Simple Simulation of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Data
-Version: 1.8.0
+Version: 1.9.0
 Date: 2019-05-03
 Author: Luke Zappia
 Authors@R:
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+## Version 1.9.0 (2019-05-03)
+
+* Bioconductor 3.10 devel
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 # Version 1.8.0 (2019-05-03)
 
 * Bioconductor 3.9 release