MuData Table for SpatialData object

[SFD5311]

Xenium version 4 and onward includes support for panels which assay for both gene expression and protein abundance. The spatialdata_io package can read these data in if gex_only is set to False, resulting in a table which contains gene expression and protein abundance measurements in the same AnnData object. This type of data seems like an intuitive fit for representation in the MuData format. Are there any plans to support SpatialData objects with MuData tables for this and other data types which might contain both multimodal measurements and spatial information?

[LucaMarconato]

Hi, thanks for reporting. MuData support is a nice to have and would be very natural. But it's low priority as before we will support incoming version of NGFF.