Isaac Virshup

Hey! We definitely have interest in cloud based storage, but so far have been largely eyeing Zarr and possibly arrow for this. This looks interesting. My initial thoughts compared to...

Sorry for the long response time here! I would really like to see this functionality integrated upstream. Is the goal here for `hsds` to become something like another driver for...

For viewing the object, this has been discussed a bit before in #346 and #521. I think this would be quite useful. Currently, I think the best way forward here...

I've opened #675 specifically for the visualization part.

Would you like to compare just structures or values as well? For values, I think this gets a little complicated due to behavior of broadcasting and arrays. Our internal `assert_equal`...

See here for a quick demo of how this can be done with a little hacking: https://discourse.scverse.org/t/concat-anndata-objects-on-disk/400/2. This mainly gets around loading `X`, but that should be the main source...

> In one instance of treating anndata as a dependency within flit I'm not sure what you mean here. Could you clarify?

Ah, yeah I vaguely recall something like this. I think @grst ran into it. I think this could ultimately be solved with a more robust versioning system, but also that's...

That works for me. What's particularly weird for me is that it doesn't fail when the `"extras"` doesn't exist. Maybe a newer `pip` is needed?

The particular issue here is that we don't have a way of saving `None`. What instead happens is that that value is just not written. In older versions, anndata would...