diff --git a/recipes/bioconductor-dropletutils/build.sh b/recipes/bioconductor-dropletutils/build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+mv DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION.old
+grep -v '^Priority: ' DESCRIPTION.old > DESCRIPTION
+$R CMD INSTALL --build .
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diff --git a/recipes/bioconductor-dropletutils/conda_build_config.yaml b/recipes/bioconductor-dropletutils/conda_build_config.yaml
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+r_base:
+  - 3.5.1
diff --git a/recipes/bioconductor-dropletutils/meta.yaml b/recipes/bioconductor-dropletutils/meta.yaml
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+{% set version = "1.0.3" %}
+{% set name = "DropletUtils" %}
+{% set bioc = "3.7" %}
+
+package:
+  name: 'bioconductor-{{ name|lower }}'
+  version: '{{ version }}'
+source:
+  url:
+    - 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/{{ bioc }}/bioc/src/contrib/{{ name }}_{{ version }}.tar.gz'
+    - 'https://bioarchive.galaxyproject.org/{{ name }}_{{ version }}.tar.gz'
+    - 'https://depot.galaxyproject.org/software/bioconductor-{{ name }}/bioconductor-{{ name }}_{{ version }}_src_all.tar.gz'
+  sha256: 63eb07ea6a35a6b52b8990209ce9b0cec5960ecee70e940dd689f2b9a08412ef 
+build:
+  number: 0
+  rpaths:
+    - lib/R/lib/
+    - lib/
+requirements:
+  host:
+    - 'bioconductor-beachmat >=1.2.1,<1.4.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-biobase >=2.40.0,<2.42.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-biocgenerics >=0.26.0,<0.28.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-edger >=3.22.4,<3.24.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-rhdf5 >=2.24.0,<2.26.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-rhdf5lib >=1.2.1,<1.4.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-s4vectors >=0.18.3,<0.20.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-singlecellexperiment >=1.2.0,<1.4.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-summarizedexperiment >=1.10.1,<1.12.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-genomeinfodb >=1.16.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-genomeinfodbdata >=1.1.0'
+    - r-base
+    - r-dplyr
+    - r-matrix
+    - 'r-rcpp >=0.12.14'
+  run:
+    - 'bioconductor-beachmat >=1.2.1,<1.4.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-biobase >=2.40.0,<2.42.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-biocgenerics >=0.26.0,<0.28.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-edger >=3.22.4,<3.24.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-rhdf5 >=2.24.0,<2.26.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-rhdf5lib >=1.2.1,<1.4.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-s4vectors >=0.18.3,<0.20.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-singlecellexperiment >=1.2.0,<1.4.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-summarizedexperiment >=1.10.1,<1.12.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-genomeinfodb >=1.16.0'
+    - 'bioconductor-genomeinfodbdata >=1.1.0'
+    - r-base
+    - r-matrix
+    - r-plyr
+    - 'r-rcpp >=0.12.14'
+  build:
+    - {{ compiler('c') }}
+    - {{ compiler('cxx') }}
+    - make
+test:
+  commands:
+    - '$R -e "library(''{{ name }}'')"'
+about:
+  home: 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/{{ bioc }}/bioc/html/{{ name }}.html'
+  license: 'GPL (>= 2)'
+  summary: 'Utilities for Handling Single-Cell Droplet Data.'
+extra:
+  identifiers:
+    - biotools:DropletUtils