CHANGES IN VERSION 3.7.0
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USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o Added a population of scores with 2-decimal places of precision. See methods 'populations()' and 'defaultPopulation()'.

    o Added metadata on tag and group annotations for automatic manipulation of the scores. See methods 'gscoresTag()' and 'gscoresGroup()'.

    o Added metadata on the total number of sites with scores. See method 'nsites()'.

CHANGES IN VERSION 3.6.0
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USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o Added citation metadata available through the GScores object and the 'citation()' method.

CHANGES IN VERSION 3.5.0
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USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o The class definition and methods that support access to this annotation package have been moved from the VariantFiltering package to the GenomicScores package.

    o Missing phastCons scores were coded as 0 in versions <= 3.4 and now are coded as NAs.

CHANGES IN VERSION 3.2.0
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USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o Updated scores from multiple alignments on 100 species, produced by UCSC on May 2015 and downloaded on October 2015. Please consult the extdata/README file for further details on these data.

    o An update in the in the VariantFiltering package scores() function enables a 10-fold faster retrieval of mean phastCons scores over genomic intervals.

CHANGES IN VERSION 3.1.0
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USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o Submission of the first version to the Bioconductor project based on the phastCons scores available at the UCSC website on March 2015. Please consult the extdata/README file for further details on these data.

(start date: March 6th, 2015)