CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.8 2015-04-12
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BUG FIXES

    o Fix a bug in example of optimize_parameter function, which was caused by update of heatmap3 package. Thanks Dan.


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.7 2015-04-06
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BUG FIXES

    o Fix a bug in example of convertId function, which was caused by update of BioMart database. Thanks Dan.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.5 2015-04-06
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o Minor changes for genes with less than 1 read count;
 
CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.4
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NEW FEATURES

    o The user friendly web interface was improved

BUG FIXES

    o Bug fixed: Max sample size for distribution based sample size estimation;
    o Bug fixed: Keep consistent for all function names;

SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o Other improvement based on the comments from Bioconductor reviewer;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.3 2014-11-23
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES


    o New parameter: countFilterInRawDistribution, selectedGeneFilterByCount;
    o Other improvement based on the comments from Bioconductor reviewer;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.2
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o The vignette was switched to a BiocStyle;
    o Other improvement based on the comments from Bioconductor reviewer;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.1 2014-10-19
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES


    o Parameter was used to determine the power of genes below minAveCount;
    o Some recommendations from BiocCheck were improved;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.0 2014-10-16
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES


    o Submit to Bioconductor.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5.0 2014-10-15
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NEW FEATURES

    o The datasets from TCGA were moved to RnaSeqSampleSizeData package;
    o The examples were improved;
    o The vignette was generated;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4.0 2014-10-10
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NEW FEATURES

    o Rcpp package was used to make some functions faster;
    o The package structure was improved;
    o The web interface was improved;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.3.0 2014-08-01
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NEW FEATURES

    o Beta approximate method was improved and used in most of the cases;
    o Read count and dispersion distribution estimation function was improved;
    o Estimation power or sample size by read count and dispersion distribution was improved.

RnaSeqSampleSize 0.2.0 2014-06-01
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NEW FEATURES

    o The function of estimation power or sample size by read count and dispersion distribution was imported and improved.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.1.7 2014-03-30
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o An approximate estimation method was used to decrease the running time when average read count (lambda0) was larger than 20;

NEW FEATURES

    o A plotting power curve function plot_power_curve was provided;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.1.6 2014-03-19
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o The code was improved to fit the web interface;

NEW FEATURES

    o The function est_power was provided for power estimation;

BUG FIXES

    o A bug was fixed;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.1.5 2014-03-16
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o The C code for R function dnbinom was improved to decrease the running time greatly;
    o The powers for different N in estimating sample size were returned to prepare power curve;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.1.4 2014-03-01
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NEW FEATURES

    o A user friendly web interface was provided at http://cqs.mc.vanderbilt.edu/shiny/RnaSeqSampleSize/;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.1.3 2014-02-17
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o The algorithm was improved to decrease the memory usage;


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.1.2 2014-02-04
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o A more detail parameter to sample size table was provided;
    o The algorithm was improved to decrease the running time and memory usage;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.1.1 2014-02-04
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o The algorithm was improved to decrease the running time greatly;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.1.0 2014-01-24
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o A more detail parameter to sample size table was provided to make sample size estimation faster;
    o An estimated time to perform sample size estimation will be displayed;

BUG FIXES

    o A bug fixed when sample size N equals to 1;

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.1 2014-01-10
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES


    o First version.