bio-hi-c-analysis-hic-data-io - Hi-C Data I/O and Matrix Manipulation
Load, convert, access, merge, coarsen, and export Hi-C contact matrices using cooler and hic2cool.
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Updated: 2026-09-16Capabilities
What this skill does
- Load cool and mcool files
- Access bin and pixel information
- Extract contact matrices and submatrices
- Convert hic files to cooler
- Create cooler files from matrices
- Merge and coarsen cooler files
- Export matrix data to files
Inputs
- .cool and .mcool files
- .hic files
- Genomic chromsizes and pairs data
- Contact matrix arrays
Outputs
- Cooler files (.cool, .mcool)
- Exported matrix files (.npy, .txt, .csv)
- Dumped pairs and bins text files
Requirements
- Python
- cooler
- hic2cool
- numpy
- pandas
- bioframe
- scipy
