Changes in version 0.99.8 o Added additional 9 DNA shape features, 1 biophysical feature, and 4 methylated DNA shape features Changes in version 0.99.7 o improved the performace of sequence encoding process. Changes in version 0.99.6 o corrected the terms of BioView in DESCRIPTION. Changes in version 0.99.5 o Upgraded R dependency version to 3.3. o Added importFrom methods in NAMESPACE. Changes in version 0.99.4 o Added caret package to the SUGGESTIONS in DESCRIPTION. Changes in version 0.99.3 o Fixed warnings from R CMD Check. o Evaluated more vignette chunks. Changes in version 0.99.1 o Added documentation for the normalizeShape function. A manual entry is now also available for most non-exported functions. o Added citation entry. Changes in version 0.99.0 o normalization parameter in encodeSeqShape.R changed to normalize. o The y-axis plot range in plotShape can now be defined by the user. o Completed package documentation. o DNA shape feature matrix returned by encodeSeqShape is now normalized by default.