By Brenda Pardo
A month ago, I started an enriching adventure by joining Leonardo Collado-Torres’ team at Lieber Institute for Brain Development. Since then, I have been working on modifying spatialLIBD, a package to interactively visualize the LIBD human dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex (DLPFC) spatial transcriptomics data (Maynard, Collado-Torres, Weber, Uytingco, et al., 2020). The performed modifications allow spatialLIBD to use objects of the VisiumExperiment class, which is designed to specifically store spatial transcriptomics data (Righelli and Risso, 2020).