Changes in version 0.99.0
+ Submitted to Bioconductor

Changes in version 1.1.x
+ split transformCounts into transformSamples and transformFeatures
+ added log_modulo_skewness as a diversity index
+ added functions for summarizing dominant taxa information
+ added wrapper for adding dominant taxa information to colData
+ added specialized subsetting function for subsetting by prevalence (subsetByPrevalentTaxa/subsetByRareTaxa)
+ added mapTaxonomy
+ added estimateDivergence
+ bugfix: makePhyloseqFromTreeSummarizedExperiment checks now for rowTree be compatible
+ bugfix: meltAssay supports Matrix types
+ bugfix: meltAssay is able to include rowData also when there are duplicated rownames
+ added subsampleCounts for Subsampling/Rarefying data
+ added getExperimentCrossCorrelation for calculatting cross-correlation between features
+ added calculateOverlap
+ getUniqueTaxa & getTopTaxa: added option for alphabetical order

Changes in version 1.3.x 
+ name change: testForExperimentCrossCorrelation to testExperimentCrossCorrelation
+ getExperimentCrossCorrelation: Filtering disabled by default, option to suppress warnings
+ bugfix: taxonomyTree gave error if taxa were agglomerated at highest level (taxa name mismatch)
+ bugfix: subsampleCounts errors if no samples are found after subsampling
+ added loadFromMetaphlan
+ renamed calculateUniFrac to calculateUnifrac 
+ added na.rm option to getTopTaxa function   
+ bugfix: makeTreeSEFromPseq -- orientation of assay is taken into account
+ bugfix: getExperimentCrossCorrelation's "matrix"" mode works with features named equally
+ bugfix: getExperimentCrossCorrelation's calculates correlations correctly with features named equally
+ getExperimentCrossCorrelation name changed to getExperimentCrossAssociation
+ getExperimentCrossAssociation: user's own function supported, sort in mode == table enabled
+ getExperimentCrossAssociation: added MARGIN & paired options, efficiency of algorithm improved
+ Added *Features aliases for *Taxa functions
+ *RDA functions utilize vegan:dbrda instead of vegan:rda
+ Sped up estimateDivergence by removing unnecessary pairwise comparisons
+ Added new internal function .calculate_reference_distance to calculate distance to a single reference sample
+ added new skin microbiome example data set 'peerj13075'
+ added splitOn and unsplitOn functions
+ CLR transformation: remove internal relative transformation
+ Replace 'abund_values' argument with 'assay_name'
+ getExpCrossCorr: added altExp option
+ added detection threshold option to getTopTaxa
+ makeSummarizedExperimentFromBiom is now makeTreeSummarizedExperimentFromBiom
+ Added mergeSE function
+ bugfix: loadFromBiom

Changes in version 1.5.x 
+ Added HintikkaXOData
+ Added sample metadata option to getExperimentCrossAssociation
+ estimateFaith: add support for multiple rowTrees
+ calculateRDA/CCA: added variable argument & replaced altexp argument with altExp
+ getExpCrossCorr: bugfix; samples should match when correlations between features are calculated
+ getExpCrossCorr: Kendall's tau is the default method
+ mergeSEs: bugfix; links between trees and rows/cols were wrong & rowData did not include all info
+ calculateDPCoA, calculateUnifrac & merge: add support for multiple trees
+ altExp parameter to altexp
+ agglomerateByRank: make rownames unique by default
+ removed calculateDistance and calculateUniFrac alias
+ calculateUnifrac bugfix

Changes in version 1.7.x
+ Deprecated assay_name arguments, replaced with assay.type
+ Removed abund_values argument
+ makePhyloseqFromTreeSE: added option for choosing a tree from multiple rowTrees
+ mergeSEs: match rows based on all available taxonomy level data on rowData
+ mergeSEs: fix bug related to equally named variables that are different class
+ mergeSEs: option for merging multiple assays
+ calculateUnifrac: option for specifying the tree from TreeSE
+ transformCounts: utilize vegan package
+ calculateUnifrac: subset tree based on data
+ agglomerateByRank: take into account multiple trees
+ loadFromBiom: name columns of rowData based on prefixes
+ Deprecate transformSamples, *Features, relabundance, ZTransform, relAbundanceCounts
+ mergeSEs: faster tree merging
+ Faith's index: fix bug that occurred when only one taxon is present
