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 Package: spatialLIBD
 Title: spatialLIBD: an R/Bioconductor package to visualize spatially-resolved
     transcriptomics data
-Version: 1.16.1
+Version: 1.16.2
 Date: 2024-05-24
 Authors@R:
     c(