Add example for selecting a subset from a backed adata#117
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Problem:
View of backed data does not allow adding annotations.
For example something like this would work for AnnData and View of AnnData in memory:
normalized_adata.uns['hvg']={"flavour":"hicat"}but this fails for a View of backed data
Solution:
Explain users how to use AnnData when working with the subset of backed data by adding to the notebook the following:
apparently this is by design. See the very end of the anndata blog post.

Validation:
HVG on a subset done this way does not fail:
Note:
if we follow this route, we should also add nice exception message if users do pass View to functions. Not sure how many modules are affected by this.