Qian et al. 2020, Nature Methods
For hippocampus, images/spot were downloaded directly. The single cell data was opened in MATLAB using their repo. Each field of the GeneSet object was saved seperately and reloaded via a Jupyter notebook into an AnnData object. There were duplicate observation and variable names. The observations were made unique via obs_names_make_unique() from AnnData. None of the duplicate genes (AnnData.var) appeared in the spatial data, so they were also made unique in the same way.
Lu et al. 2021, Cell Discovery
For testing purposes a small, cropped section of the developmental heart data (PCW4.5_1) was occasionally used