An example output looks like this:
File: hic_matrix.h5
WARNING: bin size is not homogeneous. Median 434
Size: 339,684
Sum: 243,779,407
Bin length: 434
Chromosomes: 2L, 2R, 3L, 3R, 4, X
Non-zero elements: 229,122,848
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 2116
NaN bins: 0
With HiCExplorer version 3 we support metadata in cooler files. The default behavior is to use the metadata:
$ hicInfo -m matrix.cool
To use the old method (and default for h5) please add the parameter:
$ hicInfo -m matrix.cool --no_metadata