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SpatialData: an open and universal data framework for spatial omics
Luca Marconato, Giovanni Palla, Kevin A. Yamauchi…·Oliver Stegle
SpatialData, a Zarr/OME-NGFF-based format plus Python library, unifies images, labels, points, shapes and tables across spatial omics platforms with coordinate alignment, lazy loading and cross-modal aggregation.