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 Type: Package
 Package: SingleCellMultiModal
 Title: Integrating Multi-modal Single Cell Experiment datasets
-Version: 1.15.2
+Version: 1.16.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Marcel", "Ramos", , "marcel.ramos@roswellpark.org",
         c("aut", "cre"), c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3242-0582")