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 Package: ViSEAGO
-Version: 1.16.0
+Version: 1.17.0
 Title: ViSEAGO: a Bioconductor package for clustering biological functions using Gene Ontology and semantic similarity
 Author: Aurelien Brionne [aut, cre],
         Amelie Juanchich [aut],