CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.1-1.7.5
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    o bug fix in getting genotypes if position > 2^31

    o add an option 'ignore.chr.prefix' to the function 'seqVCF2GDS'

    o 'seqVCF2GDS' ignores the INFO or FORMAT variables if they are not
      defined ahead

	o a new action 'push+set' in the function 'seqSetFilter'

    o bug fix if 'requireNamespace("SeqArray")' is called from other packages


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.0
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    o The version number was bumped for the Bioconductor release version


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.1-1.5.2
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    o fix a bug in 'seqVCF2GDS' when the values in the FILTER column are
      all missing

    o enhance 'seqVCF.Header'

    o support the LinkingTo mechanism

    o fix the error in haploid genotypes (Y chromosome)


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.0
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    o The version number was bumped for the Bioconductor release version


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.1-1.3.4
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    o update according to the new version of VariantAnnotation

    o update test codes to avoid the conflict

    o bumped version as all packages that depend on Rcpp must be rebuilt

    o modify to new biocViews to DESCRIPTION file


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.0
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    o The version number was bumped for the Bioconductor release version


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.4-1.1.5
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    o add a new argument "action" to the function 'seqSetFilter'

    o add a new function 'seqInfoNewVar' which allows adding new variables
      to the INFO fields

    o minor bug fix in asVCF

    o update man page "SeqVarGDSClass-class.Rd" with new methods

    o in DESCRIPTION, BiocGenerics listed in "Suggests" instead of "Imports"
      as suggested by R CMD check

    o bug fix in seqDelete

    o revise the function 'seqTranspose' according to the update of
      gdsfmt (v1.0.0)


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.1-1.1.3
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    o revise the argument 'var.index' in the function 'seqApply'

    o basic supports of 'GRanges' and 'DNAStringSetList'

    o added methods 'qual', 'filt', 'asVCF'

    o 'granges' method uses length of reference allele to set width

    o minor bug fix to avoid 'seqGetData' crashing when no value returned
      from a variable-length variable

    o update documents


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.0
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    o The version number was bumped for the Bioconductor release version


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.0
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    o first submission