Changes in version 0.99.0 - Initial Bioconductor submission. - ascend() for matrices, data frames and SummarizedExperiment objects; ascendMultiAssay() for MultiAssayExperiment objects. - AscendResult class with ancestralMatrix(), ancestralEdges(), pairPValues() and ascendStats(). - simulateTwoTier(), trueAncestral() and evaluateAncestral() for simulation and benchmarking. - Results are identical to the implementation used in the paper.