Overview
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`BandHiC <https://pypi.org/project/bandhic>`_ is a Python package for efficient storage, manipulation, and analysis of Hi-C matrices using a banded matrix representation.

BandHiC adopts a banded storage scheme that stores only a configurable diagonal bandwidth of the dense Hi-C contact matrices. This design can reduce memory usage by up to 99% compared to dense matrices, while still supporting fast random access and user-friendly indexing operations. 

Main features include:

   - Efficient storage of Hi-C matrices using a banded representation.
   - Fast random access and indexing operations.
   - Support for flexible masking of missing values, outliers, and unmappable regions.
   - Vectorized operations optimized with NumPy for high performance.
   - Scalable for ultra-high-resolution Hi-C data analysis.