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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use this software, please cite the associated article."
+title: "Hotgenes: an R package for reducing bottlenecks in bulk omics data exploration and collaboration"
+authors:
+  - family-names: Virgen-Slane
+    given-names: Richard
+    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0011-3844"
+    email: Richard.Virgen-Slane@pfizer.com
+type: article
+journal: "Bioinformatics"
+year: 2026
+identifiers:
+  - type: doi
+    value: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag434
+preferred-citation:
+  type: article
+  title: "Hotgenes: an R package for reducing bottlenecks in bulk omics data exploration and collaboration"
+  authors:
+    - family-names: Virgen-Slane
+      given-names: Richard
+      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0011-3844"
+  journal: "Bioinformatics"
+  year: 2026
+  pages: btag434
+  doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag434
+  url: "https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag434"
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: Hotgenes
 Type: Package
 Title: Tools to simplify Omics DE Analysis
-Version: 0.0.56
+Version: 0.99.0
 Authors@R: person(
     given = "Richard",
     family = "Virgen-Slane",
@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@ Description: Converts outputs from DESeq2, DRomics, limma, or a method of your
     hierarchical clustering on principal components.
 License: Apache License (>= 2) | file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8
-LazyData: true
 RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
+URL: https://github.com/pfizer-opensource/Open-Hotgenes
+BugReports: https://github.com/pfizer-opensource/Open-Hotgenes/issues
+biocViews: Software, GeneExpression, DifferentialExpression, RNASeq,
+    Transcriptomics, PrincipalComponent, Clustering, Visualization, Shiny
 Imports: 
     cli,
     factoextra,
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+bibentry(
+  bibtype  = "Article",
+  title    = "Hotgenes: an R package for reducing bottlenecks in bulk omics data exploration and collaboration",
+  author   = person("Richard", "Virgen-Slane",
+                    email   = "Richard.Virgen-Slane@pfizer.com",
+                    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0011-3844")),
+  journal  = "Bioinformatics",
+  year     = "2026",
+  pages    = "btag434",
+  doi      = "10.1093/bioinformatics/btag434",
+  url      = "https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag434"
+)