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 Package: Gviz
 Title: Plotting data and annotation information along genomic coordinates
-Version: 1.45.2
+Version: 1.47.0
 Authors@R: c(person("Florian", "Hahne", role="aut"),
 	 person("Steffen", "Durinck", role="aut"),
 	 person("Robert", "Ivanek", role=c("aut", "cre"),