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 Package: Spectra
 Title: Spectra Infrastructure for Mass Spectrometry Data
-Version: 1.15.13
+Version: 1.16.0
 Description: The Spectra package defines an efficient infrastructure
    for storing and handling mass spectrometry spectra and functionality to
    subset, process, visualize and compare spectra data. It provides different