diff --git a/recipes/spec2vec/meta.yaml b/recipes/spec2vec/meta.yaml
index 3d4442093ad28..c22b684c85102 100644
--- a/recipes/spec2vec/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/spec2vec/meta.yaml
@@ -11,8 +11,10 @@ source:
 
 build:
   noarch: python
-  script: {{ PYTHON }} -m pip install . -vv
+  script: {{ PYTHON }} -m pip install . --no-deps --no-build-isolation --no-cache-dir -vvv
   number: 1
+  run_exports:
+    - {{ pin_subpackage('spec2vec', max_pin="x.x") }}
 
 requirements:
   host:
@@ -21,7 +23,7 @@ requirements:
   run:
     - python >=3.7
     - gensim >=4.2.0
-    - matchms >=0.14.0, <=0.26.4
+    - matchms >=0.14.0,<=0.26.4
     - numba >=0.51
     - numpy
     - fuzzytm
@@ -31,18 +33,19 @@ requirements:
 test:
   imports:
     - spec2vec
-  commands:
-    - pip check
-  requires:
-    - pip
 
 about:
-  home: https://github.com/iomega/spec2vec
-  summary: Word2Vec based similarity measure of mass spectrometry data.
-  license: Apache-2.0
+  home: "https://github.com/iomega/spec2vec"
+  summary: "Word2Vec based similarity measure of mass spectrometry data."
+  license: "Apache-2.0"
+  license_family: APACHE
   license_file: LICENSE
+  dev_url: "https://github.com/iomega/spec2vec"
+  doc_url: "https://spec2vec.readthedocs.io/en/latest"
 
 extra:
   recipe-maintainers:
     - bgruening
     - hechth
+  identifiers:
+    - doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008724