**Changes In Version 0.2.0 (May 12, 2022)**

- Addressed issues 12, 14, and 19: refactored commands merge sortreads and filter to work with zipped files (.gz and .bz2 format).
   * Merge and sortreads produce zipped files when zipped files are provided: issues
   * filter can accept compressed input: issue 19,
   * sortreads produce compressed output when provided with compressed inputs: issue 14,
   * merge produce compressed output when provided with compressed: inputs 12.

- Addressed issues 15, 16, 17, 18 (improved demultiplexing with sortreads):
   * implemented --no_reverse option to check only on strand: issue 15,
   * use cutadapt v3 to search all tags pairs in parallel: issue 16,
   * added options --tag_to_end and --primer_to_end to search and trim for tags (issue 17) and primers (issue 18) only at the end of the strands.

- Addressed issue 20:
   * added command random_seq to produce random samples from a dataset

- Addressed issue 1:
    * Integrated the make_known_occurrences command to create a .tsv file with the known occurrences.