Changes in version 1.45.2                        

    o   Ported changes from 1.44.2

                       Changes in version 1.45.1                        

    o   Ported changes from 1.44.1

                       Changes in version 1.44.2                        

    o   Updated the maintainer email address

    o   Cleared the imports

                       Changes in version 1.44.1                        

    o   Updated the vignette (data.frame() default is not a factor anymore for character vectors in R4)

    o   Removed the defunct RangedData usage

                       Changes in version 1.31.1                        

    o   the signature of rank() has now ... and "last" as option in ties.method (for compatibility only -- not supported) 

                       Changes in version 1.25.3                        

    o   Changed the "c" function from an S3method to use the S4 generic.

                       Changes in version 1.25.2                        

    o   Fixed the width function to handle correctly the left end of the intervals

                       Changes in version 1.25.1                        

    o   Changed readGff3 to use closed intervals by default. Implemented two
	sub-functions that implement reading a gff3 as base-pair features only (no
	zero length intervals, i.e. right-closed intervals) or which allows for
	zero length intervals, i.e. right-open intervals, when start equals end)

    o   Deprecated the seq_name accessors in favour of the BiocGenerics seqnames

    o   Added a width accessor - similar to the IRanges functionality

    o   Added coercion to GRangesList and RangedData

    o   Edited some of the documentation (man page) and NAMESPACE generation to
	use roxygen2

                       Changes in version 1.25.0                        

    o   Bioc Version 3.2 devel

                       Changes in version 1.24.1                        

    o   Fixing Git-SVN issues

                       Changes in version 1.24.0                        

    o   Bioc Version 3.1 release

                       Changes in version 1.23.2                        

    o   Ported version 1.22.2-1.22.3 changes

                       Changes in version 1.23.1                        

    o   Ported version 1.22.1 changes

                       Changes in version 1.23.0                        

    o   Bioc Version 3.1

                       Changes in version 1.22.3                        

    o   Fixed a documentation cosmetic issue

                       Changes in version 1.22.2                        

    o   Fixed a pretty printing issue if the formatting (inclusion of space)

                       Changes in version 1.22.1                        

    o   Fixed an issue in the formatting of the coordinates in the
	writeGff3 function

                       Changes in version 1.22.0                        

    o   Bioc Version 3.0

                       Changes in version 1.21.1                        

    o   Ported version 1.20.1 changes

                       Changes in version 1.20.1                        

    o   Added an argument to the readGff3 function to
	enable quietness.

    o   Corrected some R CMD check warnings

                       Changes in version 1.15.3                        

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

                       Changes in version 1.15.2                        

    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                        

    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                        

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

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

    o   updated Julien's email address

    o   added a 'which_nearest' method for Genome_intervals objects

                       Changes in version 1.11.1                        

NEW FEATURES

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

                        Changes in version 1.7.5                        

NEW FEATURES

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

                        Changes in version 1.7.4                        

NEW FEATURES

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

                        Changes in version 1.7.3                        

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                        

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                        

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