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 Package: visiumStitched
 Title: Enable downstream analysis of Visium capture areas stitched together with
     Fiji
-Version: 0.99.14
+Version: 0.99.15
 Date: 2024-11-21
 Authors@R: 
     c(
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+# visiumStitched 0.99.15
+
 # visiumStitched 0.99.14
 
 # visiumStitched 0.99.13