CHANGES IN VERSION 1.15.3
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	o genome intervals order now consisten with assumption that (start == [start-1 and that stop) == stop-1]

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.15.2
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	o Depends on intervals >=0.14.0 to fix a change in R's split behavior
	o sort does not have byName argument any longer

NEW FEATURES
	o order, sort, rank and xtfrm consistently implemented.
	

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.15.1
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	o Created that NEWS file to replace the
	CHANGES file and be compliant to the R
	standard package architecture

NEW FEATURES

    o introduced a coercion to data.frame
    o introduced a writeGff3 function
    o reverted the sort behavior to the default R behavior
    and added a method argument. Setting it to byName results
    in a more biologically relevant sorting of the object.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.13.4
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NEW FEATURES

    o annotation and annotation<- now from BiocGenerics. Thanks to Nicolas Delhomme.

BUG FIXES
    
    o in interval_union use full argument name (levels instead of level)

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.13.4
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	o updated Julien's email address


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.13.4
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NEW FEATURES
    
    o added a 'which_nearest' method for Genome_intervals objects


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.11.1
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NEW FEATURES

    o strand and strand<- now from BiocGenerics. Thanks to Nicolas Delhomme.


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.5
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NEW FEATURES

    o show only show the 1st 4 rows and the last 4 rows of a genomeIntervals

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.4
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NEW FEATURES

   o Added a 'sort' method for 'Genome_intervals' objects

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.3
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NEW FEATURES

   o Added a new user-friendly constructor function 'GenomeIntervals' 
     for constructing both 'Genome_intervals' and
     'Genome_intervals_stranded' objects

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.2
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BUG FIXES

    o regular expression in the extract method (called by parseGffAttributes()) fixed to make sure any key is at the beginning of after a ';' 

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.1
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BUG FIXES

    o The package does not "Depends" on Biobase but only "Imports" it. 
    o readGff3 deals with Gff having only "+" strand entries (bug report from Nicolas Servant) as well as "?" strand entries