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 Type: Package
 Package: hermes
 Title: Preprocessing, analyzing, and reporting of RNA-seq data
-Version: 1.7.1.9000
-Date: 2024-02-13
+Version: 1.7.1.9001
+Date: 2024-03-06
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Daniel", "Sabanés Bové", , "daniel.sabanes_bove@roche.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Namrata", "Bhatia", role = "aut"),
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-# hermes 1.7.1.9000
+# hermes 1.7.1.9001
 
 ### Enhancements
 * New plotting function `draw_heatmap` to produce heatmaps of (normalized) counts.