I'm trying to use the new Hi-C analysis package HiFive http://bxlab-hifive.readthedocs.org/en/latest/fragment_handling.html.

Unfortunately I can't get past the first step - creating the fend (fragment end) object.

The documentation says you can either input a bed file or a HicPipe compatible file containing the chromosome, start, and end of every restriction fragment in the genome.

I used Bowtie2 and then HiCup_Digester http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/hicup/quickstart/ to create a file containing information about these fragments. This file was used successfully later in the HiCup pipeline, so I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

I then removed the extra columns and header so it could be inputted as a bed file, shown below. It is tab delimited;

chr1    1          16007
chr1    16008   24571
chr1    24572   27981
chr1    27982   30429
chr1    30430   32153
chr1    32154   32774
chr1    32775   37752
chr1    37753   38369
chr1    38370   38791
chr1    38792   39255

I then tried to create a fend object from this file

fend = hifive.Fend('test_fend', mode='w')
fend.load_fends('2015_09_02_GRCh38_HindIII_fend.bed', genome_name='GRCh38',re_name='HindIII',format='bed')
fend.save()

But I get this error;

  File ".../hifive-1.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/hifive/fend.py", line 259, in _load_from_bed
    fends['start'][pos:(pos + data_len)] = data[chrom]['start'][:]
ValueError: could not broadcast input array from shape (65299) into shape (130598)

I then tried adding column names 'chr' 'start' 'stop' just in case headers were needed, but I got exactly the same error.

Any insight would be much appreciated! It looks like a great package and I'd really like to use it.