diff --git a/rec_to_nwb/environment.yml b/rec_to_nwb/environment.yml
index fbbab1c43..1345896ca 100644
--- a/rec_to_nwb/environment.yml
+++ b/rec_to_nwb/environment.yml
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ dependencies:
   - wheel
   - xmlschema
   - zlib
-  - mountainlab_pytools
   - vdom
   - pyyaml
   - pytest
   - testfixtures
-  - ndx-franklab-novela==0.0.006
+  - ndx-franklab-novela==0.0.007
   - pip:
+      - mountainlab_pytools
       - xmldiff
       - rec-to-binaries==0.5.1.dev0
 
diff --git a/rec_to_nwb/notebooks/nwb_generation.ipynb b/rec_to_nwb/notebooks/nwb_generation.ipynb
index b0ee0e53a..6138bbc3b 100644
--- a/rec_to_nwb/notebooks/nwb_generation.ipynb
+++ b/rec_to_nwb/notebooks/nwb_generation.ipynb
@@ -149,4 +149,4 @@
  },
  "nbformat": 4,
  "nbformat_minor": 2
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/upload_dependencies.sh b/upload_dependencies.sh
index 6e5df4840..c400ba948 100644
--- a/upload_dependencies.sh
+++ b/upload_dependencies.sh
@@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ conda config --set anaconda_upload no
 echo "Build missing pypi packages..."
 conda skeleton pypi rec_to_binaries --version 0.5.1.dev0
 conda skeleton pypi xmldiff
+conda skeleton pypi mountainlab_pytools
 
 echo "Build missing pypi packages into conda packages..."
 conda build rec_to_binaries
 conda build xmldiff
+conda build mountainlab_pytools
 
 echo "Convert  missing pypi packages ..."
 conda convert --platform osx-64 $CONDA_BUILD_PATH/linux-64/***.tar.bz2 --output-dir $CONDA_BUILD_PATH -q
@@ -24,3 +26,4 @@ conda convert --platform win-64 $CONDA_BUILD_PATH/linux-64/***.tar.bz2 --output-
 echo "Upload  missing pypi packages to anaconda..."
 anaconda upload $CONDA_BUILD_PATH/**/rec_to_binaries-*.tar.bz2 --force
 anaconda upload $CONDA_BUILD_PATH/**/xmldiff-*.tar.bz2 --force
+anaconda upload $CONDA_BUILD_PATH/**/mountainlab_pytools-*.tar.bz2 --force