v0.7.0

New features

• New Cooler URIs: Full support for Cooler objects anywhere in the data hierarchy of a .cool file
• Experimental dask support via cooler.contrib.dask
• New explicit bin blacklist option for cooler balance
• Various new CLI tools:
  • cooler list
  • cooler copy
  • cooler merge
• cooler csort now produces Pairix files by default
• cooler load now accepts two types of matrix text input formats
  • 3-column sparse matrix
  • 7-column bg2.gz (2D bedGraph) indexed with Pairix (e.g. using csort)
• cooler coarsegrain renamed cooler coarsen
• Multi-resolution HiGlass input files can now be generated with the cooler zoomify command
• More flexible API functions to create and append columns to Coolers in cooler.io

Backwards-incompatible changes

• cooler.io.create signature changed; chromsizes argument is deprecated.
• cooler csort argument order changed

Bug fixes

• Chromosome name length restriction removed
• Cooler.open function now correctly opens the specific root group of the Cooler and behaves like a proper context manager in all cases