--- a
+++ b/sub-packages/bionemo-scdl/pyproject.toml
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+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "bionemo-scdl"
+readme = "README.md"
+description = "SCDL, a Dataset class for Single Cell data."
+authors = [{ name = "BioNeMo Team", email = "bionemofeedback@nvidia.com" }]
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
+license = { file = "LICENSE" }
+dynamic = ["version"]
+dependencies = [
+    # bionemo sub-packages
+    'bionemo-core>=2.2.1',
+    # external
+    'anndata>=0.11.0',
+    'pandas>=2.2.1',
+    'pyarrow>=16.0.0',
+    'scipy>=1.11.1',
+    'pydantic[email]',
+]
+
+[project.scripts]
+convert_h5ad_to_scdl = "bionemo.scdl.scripts.convert_h5ad_to_scdl:main"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["src"]
+include = ["bionemo.*"]
+namespaces = true
+exclude = ["test*."]
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+version = { file = "VERSION" }
+
+[tool.uv]
+cache-keys = [{ git = true }]