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 Package: gdsfmt
 Type: Package
 Title: R Interface to CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) Files
-Version: 1.5.16
+Version: 1.6.0
 Date: 2015-10-03
 Depends: R (>= 2.14.0)
 Imports: methods