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 ## new
 - `sliceGiotto()` for pulling out specific spatial units and feature types as independent `giotto` objects
+- `splitGiotto()` for splitting a Giotto object into a list of Giotto objects based on a cell metadata column
 - `as.list()` method for `giotto` to dump the data as a list of subobjects