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+Beta Release 0.1.19 (15 March, 2013)
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+Notable changes in samtools and bcftools:
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+ * The latest source code and development moved to github,
+    http://github.com/samtools/samtools
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+ * Many important bugfixes and contributions by many people. Thanks to all!
+
+ * Performance improvements (multi-threading)
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+ * Important changes in calling, see
+    - samtools mpileup -p
+    - bcftools view -m
+ 
+ * New annotations useful for filtering (RPB, HWE, QBD, MDV)
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+ * New tools, bamcheck and plot-bamcheck
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+ * New features in samtools tview 
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+ * And much more..
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+For a detailed list of commits, please see
+http://github.com/samtools/samtools/commits/master
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+(0.1.19: 15 March 2013, commit 96b5f2294ac0054230e88913c4983d548069ea4e)
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+
 Beta Release 0.1.18 (2 September, 2011)
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