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 Package: maldipickr
 Title: Dereplicate and Cherry-Pick Mass Spectrometry Spectra
-Version: 1.3.0
+Version: 1.3.0.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Charlie", "Pauvert", , "cpauvert@ukaachen.de", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9832-2507")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# maldipickr (development version)
+
 # maldipickr 1.3.0
 
 ## Fixed