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 # Signac 0.2.0
 
-* First CRAN release
 * Removed dependency on TFBSTools, motifmatchr, AnnotationDbi, ggbio, AnnotationFilter
 * Renamed `PeriodPlot` to `FragmentHistogram`
 * Removed motif dimension reduction functions