Changes in version 2.7.1 (2020-11-03)
    + fixed some warnings from R Check and BiocCheck

Changes in version 2.3.1 (2020-03-18)
    + added helpful output in case the gradient descent diverges

Changes in version 2.1.4 (2019-05-17)
    + minor changes

Changes in version 2.1.3 (2019-05-13)
    + Performance improvments
        o regarding function calcSummary
        o and calcScore 

Changes in version 2.1.2 (2019-05-10)
    + New feature
        o y-axis in boxplot function can now be logged

Changes in version 2.1.1 (2019-05-09)
    + New feature
        o Implementation of outlier detection

Changes in version 2.0.0 (2019-04-30)
    + Code refactoring
        o Simplification of the source code
        o Changes to the API
        o Extraction of the preprocessing function
        o loss function is now exported
        o renaming of functions
        o Combination of calcPvals and calcMedians methods into one
    + Documentation
        o Update of the README
        o New Vignette
    + Serial execution of the methods is now the default
    + Performance improvments
        o Usage of RCPP for further performance improvements
    + Change from GPL-2 to GPL-3 license
    + Removing of deprecated functions
    + Tests
        o Implementation of further tests

Changes in version 1.13.11 (2018-10-25)
    + Tests
        o Implementation of further tests

Changes in version 1.13.10 (2018-10-24)
    + Tests
        o Test for the gdepoch function
    + Code refactoring
        o Simplification of the source code
    + Performance improvements

Changes in version 1.13.9 (2018-10-23)
    + Tests
        o Test for the loss function
    + Code refactoring
        o Simplification of the source code

Changes in version 1.13.8 (2018-10-22)
    + New feature
        o First implementation of tests with testthat
    + Code refactoring
        o Simplification of the source code

Changes in version 1.13.7 (2018-10-10)
    + Bug fixes

Changes in version 1.13.6 (2018-10-05)
    + Bug fixes
        o Some minor issues with the calculation of p-values are fixed

Changes in version 1.13.5 (2018-10-04)
    + New feature
        o Checks for the validity of inputs added
    + Performance improvements

Changes in version 1.13.4 (2018-10-02)
    + Performance improvements

Changes in version 1.13.3 (2018-09-28)
    + Change of dependencies
        o Usage of data.table for various functions for performance improvement
    + Code refactoring
        o Simplification of the source code

Changes in version 1.13.2 (2018-09-27)
    + Bug fixes
        o p-values couldn't be calculated for a gene with only missing values in a batch (#1)

Changes in version 1.13.1 (2018-09-25)
    + Change of dependencies
        o BEclear uses now BiocParallel instead of snowfall for parallelisation
        o roxygen2 is now used for the generating the documentation
    + Code refactoring
        o Internal functions got extracted
        o Methods have now all their own files
    + Bug fixes 
    + Performance improvements
    
Changes in version 1.0.0 (2015-4-16)
    + Release with Bioconductor version 3.1
    
Changes in version 0.99.0 (2015-2-18)
    + Submitted to Bioconductor