diff --git a/maintainer/conda/MDAnalysis/build.sh b/maintainer/conda/MDAnalysis/build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+pip install package/
+pip install testsuite/
diff --git a/maintainer/conda/MDAnalysis/meta.yaml b/maintainer/conda/MDAnalysis/meta.yaml
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+package:
+  name: mdanalysis
+  version: "0.14.0"
+
+source:
+   # to build from source you can speficy the path to the code directly.
+   # path: ../../../
+   git_url: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis
+   git_branch: develop
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - python
+    - setuptools
+    - pip
+    - numpy
+    - cython
+    - tempdir
+    - six
+    - griddataformats
+    - networkx
+    - biopython
+    - nose
+    - tempdir
+
+  run:
+    - python
+    - numpy
+    - scipy
+    - griddataformats
+    - networkx
+    - biopython
+    - matplotlib
+    - seaborn
+    - six
+    - netcdf4
+    - nose
+    - tempdir
+
+test:
+  # Python imports
+  # turn off test for now since MDAnalysis require GridDataFormats package
+  # we can make a conda recipe for it too
+  imports:
+    - MDAnalysis
+    - MDAnalysis.analysis
+
+  requires:
+    # Put any additional test requirements here.  For example
+    - python
+    - numpy
+    - scipy
+    - griddataformats
+    - networkx
+    - biopython
+    - matplotlib
+    - seaborn
+    - six
+    - netcdf4
+    - nose
+    - tempdir
+
+  commands:
+    - python -c 'import MDAnalysisTests; MDAnalysisTests.run(label="full", extra_argv=[])'
+
+about:
+  home: http://www.mdanalysis.org
+  license: GPLv2
+  license_file: package/LICENSE
+  summary: 'MDAnalysis is a Python library to analyze molecular dynamics trajectories.'
+
+# See
+# http://docs.continuum.io/conda/build.html for
+# more information about meta.yaml
diff --git a/maintainer/conda/tempdir/bld.bat b/maintainer/conda/tempdir/bld.bat
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+"%PYTHON%" setup.py install
+if errorlevel 1 exit 1
+
+:: Add more build steps here, if they are necessary.
+
+:: See
+:: http://docs.continuum.io/conda/build.html
+:: for a list of environment variables that are set during the build process.
diff --git a/maintainer/conda/tempdir/build.sh b/maintainer/conda/tempdir/build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+$PYTHON setup.py install
+
+# Add more build steps here, if they are necessary.
+
+# See
+# http://docs.continuum.io/conda/build.html
+# for a list of environment variables that are set during the build process.
diff --git a/maintainer/conda/tempdir/meta.yaml b/maintainer/conda/tempdir/meta.yaml
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+package:
+  name: tempdir
+  version: "0.7.1"
+
+source:
+  fn: tempdir-0.7.1.tar.gz
+  url: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/t/tempdir/tempdir-0.7.1.tar.gz
+  md5: 4076f2d7fa9306c77f7b16a5f2e4c154
+
+build:
+  noarch_python: True
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - python
+    - setuptools
+
+  run:
+    - python
+
+test:
+  # Python imports
+  imports:
+    - tempdir
+
+about:
+  home: https://bitbucket.org/another_thomas/tempdir
+  license: MIT License
+  summary: 'Tempdirs are temporary directories, based on tempfile.mkdtemp'
+
+# See
+# http://docs.continuum.io/conda/build.html for
+# more information about meta.yaml