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 Package: signals
 Title: Single Cell Genomes with Allele Specificity
-Version: 0.9.1
+Version: 0.10.0
 Author@R: c(person("Marc", "Williams", email = "marcjwilliams1@gmail.com",
                   role = c("aut", "cre")),
             person("Tyler", "Funnell",
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+# signals 0.10.0
+
+* add chr string check
+* remove acrocentric chromosomes in arm consensus
+* minor changes to heatmap and plotting
+
 # signals 0.9.1
 
 * Update docker to install suggests packages