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 Package: immApex
 Title: Tools for Adaptive Immune Receptor Sequence-Based Keras3 Modeling
-Version: 0.99.6
+Version: 1.0.1
 Date: 2024-10-30
 Authors@R: c(
     person(given = "Nick", family = "Borcherding", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "ncborch@gmail.com"))
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-# immApex VERSION 0.99.6
+# immApex VERSION 1.0.1
 
 ## UNDERLYING CHANGES
 * Fix issue with optimizer call in ```variationalSequences()```
 * Move package to keras3
+* Version Bump to be consistent with Bioconductor release
 
 # immApex VERSION 0.99.5