diff --git a/conda.yml b/conda.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6043fe9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conda.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+name: uce
+channels:
+  - conda-forge
+  - pytorch
+  - nvidia
+  - defaults
+dependencies:
+  - python
+  - pandas
+  - scikit-learn
+  - numpy
+  - tqdm
+  - pytorch>=2.0.0
+  - pytorch-gpu
+  - torchvision
+  - torchaudio
+  - cuda-toolkit>=12.0.0
+  - accelerate
+  - requests
+  - urllib3==1.26.6  
+  - scanpy
+  # - python-igraph
+  # - leidenalg
+  - ipykernel 
+  - pip 
+  - pip:
+    - gdown
diff --git a/model_files/new_species_protein_embeddings.csv b/model_files/new_species_protein_embeddings.csv
index 5d134d1..c3eb19f 100644
--- a/model_files/new_species_protein_embeddings.csv
+++ b/model_files/new_species_protein_embeddings.csv
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 species,path
+chicken,/dfs/project/cross-species/yanay/code/uce_code/UCE_public/model_files/protein_embeddings/Gallus_gallus.bGalGal1.mat.broiler.GRCg7b.pep.all.gene_symbol_to_embedding_ESM2.pt
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