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 Package: regutools
 Title: regutools: an R package for data extraction from RegulonDB
-Version: 1.16.0
+Version: 1.17.0
 Date: 2021-11-15
 Authors@R: c(
     person ("Joselyn", "Chavez", email =  "joselynchavezf@gmail.com",