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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: derfinder
 Type: Package
 Title: Annotation-agnostic differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data at
     base-pair resolution via the DER Finder approach
-Version: 1.38.0
+Version: 1.39.0
 Date: 2021-09-14
 Authors@R: c(person("Leonardo", "Collado-Torres", role = c("aut", "cre"), email
     = "lcolladotor@gmail.com", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2140-308X")),