@article{wolff2020scool, author = {Wolff, Joachim and Abdennur, Nezar and Backofen, Rolf and Gr\"uning, Bj\"orn}, title = "{Scool: a new data storage format for single-cell Hi-C data}", journal = {Bioinformatics}, year = {2020}, month = {11}, abstract = "{Single-cell Hi-C research currently lacks an efficient, easy to use and shareable data storage format. Recent studies have used a variety of sub-optimal solutions: publishing raw data only, text based interaction matrices, or reusing established Hi-C storage formats for single interaction matrices. These approaches are storage and pre-processing intensive, require long labour time and are often error-prone.The single-cell cooler file format (scool) provides an efficient, user-friendly and storage-saving approach for single-cell Hi-C data. It is a flavour of the established cooler format and guarantees stable API support.The single-cell cooler format is part of the cooler file format as of API version 0.8.9. It is available via pip, conda and github: https://github.com/mirnylab/cooler.Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.}", issn = {1367-4803}, doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa924}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa924}, note = {btaa924}, eprint = {https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa924/34088164/btaa924.pdf}, user = {miladim} }