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 [Example - Shigella sonnei public data](example.txt)
 
-Current release - v0.1.7 - January 12, 2015
+Current release - v0.1.8 - March 15, 2016
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 Dependencies:
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 - SAMtools v0.1.18   https://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/files/samtools/0.1.18/ (NOTE later versions can be used, but better results are obtained with v0.1.18 especially at low read depths (<20x))
 
 
-Updates in master branch, to be in next release
+Updates in v0.1.8
 
 1. /data directory includes files for subtyping of the LEE pathogenicity island of E. coli, as per [Ingle et al, 2016, Nature Microbiology](http://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201510). [Instructions below](https://github.com/katholt/srst2#typing-the-lee-pathogenicity-island-of-e-coli)