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Input/Output
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.. currentmodule:: lsdb

Construction
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.. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/

    open_catalog
    show_versions
    from_dataframe
    from_astropy
    nested.datasets.generation.generate_catalog

Materializing
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Typically, you would materialize a catalog via ``catalog.write_catalog()`` calls,
and they will call these io methods with appropriate settings.

.. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/

    io.to_hats
    io.to_collection
    io.to_association