Changes in version 1.5.7
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	o Improved description in the tutorial (BioMM() function returns the prediction scores instead of metrics)
	o Updated BioMMstage2pred() and BioMM() functions to get prediction scores instead of performance metrics
	o Updated getMetrics() to cope with the 'probability' predicted score as well.

Changes in version 1.5.4
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	o Improved description in the tutorial

Changes in version 1.5.2
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	o updated R functions for reporting results and plotting.
	o added another omics data (gene expression) and KEGG pathway. 
	o updated tutorial by demonstrating BioMM with another omics data (gene expression) and KEGG pathway annotation. 
	
Changes in version 1.1.10
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	o updated tutorial: added circular plot
	
Changes in version 1.1.9
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	o updated tutorial: updated description for two parallel computing; cirPlot4pathway() example added; seeds added
	o updated plotRankedFeature().

Changes in version 1.1.8
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	o updated tutorial: fixed typo 'param1' to 'param2'
	o added a new function cirPlot4pathway()

Changes in version 1.1.7
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	o updated tutorial

Changes in version 1.1.6
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	o improved plotVarExplained() and plotRankedFeature()
	o renamed R functions for getDataAfterFS, BioMMreconData, BioMMstage1pca
	o updated installation approaches (including R 3.5 from Github)
	o updated tutorial to adapt the usage of the parallel package installed from Github

Changes in version 1.1.5
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	o updated BioMM(); 'dataMode' added.
	o fixed roc() in getMetrics()

Changes in version 1.1.4
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	o removed the examples with omcis2chrlist()
	o updated the omics2pathlist()

Changes in version 1.1.3
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	o added required package pROC for getMetrics()
	o updated NAMESPACE and Rd file. 


Changes in version 1.1.2
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	o added the library pROC in the tutorial.

Changes in version 1.1.1
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	o updated functions getMetrics(), plotVarExplained() and plotRankedFeature(); to focus on pathway based result report.
	o updated BioMMtutorial.Rmd  

	
Changes in version 1.1.0
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	o removed gene and chromosome based stratification methods.
	o updated feature selection method based on filtering getDataAfterFS().
	o updated BioMM() function to focus on pathway based machine learning.
	o updated BioMMtutorial.Rmd  


Changes in version 0.99.13
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	o updated the format of NEWS
	o updated BioMMtutorial.Rmd 
	o updated data4demo.R 
		o replaced the generation of stage-2 data by BioMMreconData() 
		  with preprocessed 'stage2dataA' to reduce runtime
		o increased repeatA1 to 50 for BioMM() example to avoid any NAs.  
	o created stage2dataA.rds
	

Changes in version 0.99.12
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	o updated the format of NEWS


Changes in version 0.99.11
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	o updated DESCRIPTION file


Changes in version 0.99.10
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	o minor bug fixed in getDataAfterFS()
	o updated installation method


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Changes in version 0.99.9
	o removed uncessary print statements
	o removed 'return' calls for some functions 
	o removed unnecessary 'which' statements  
	o replaced the usage of MulticoreParam() 
	o updated tutorial with smaller examples and models with less computation 


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Changes in version 0.99.8
	o updated author, maintainer section in DESCRIPTION 
	o updated parallel computing cores used in the vignettes 


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Changes in version 0.99.7
	o updated parallel evaluation environments
	o updated installation method in README.md 
	o more cores (non-windows) for parallel computing used in the vignettes to reduce runtime

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Changes in version 0.99.6 
	o updated plotRankedFeature() and getMetrics()
	o increased core number for parallel computing
	o removed Duplicated descriptions in *.Rd files

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Changes in version 0.99.5 
	o reformatted code by using formatR
	o bplapply() instead of mclapply
	o message() instead of print() for end-user messages 
	o improved usage of which()
	o use seq_along() instead of seq_len(length())   
	o updated installation method
	o renamed R source files

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Changes in version 0.99.4 
	o updated example in BioMMreconData()

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Changes in version 0.99.3 
	o updated example in BioMM()

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Changes in version 0.99.2 
	o updated R version dependency (from 3.5.2 to 3.6) 
	o Removed the file LICENSE

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Changes in version 0.99.1 
	o updated R version dependency (from 3.5.0 to 3.5.2) 

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Changes in version 0.99.0 
	o Removed the file "BioMM.Rproj"