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 Type: Package
 Package: tidybulk
 Title: Brings transcriptomics to the tidyverse 
-Version: 1.15.8
+Version: 1.17.0
 Authors@R: c(person("Stefano", "Mangiola", email = "mangiolastefano@gmail.com",
                   role = c("aut", "cre")),
             person("Maria", "Doyle", email = "Maria.Doyle@petermac.org",