diff --git a/.cruft.json b/.cruft.json
index 0912980..b35585e 100644
--- a/.cruft.json
+++ b/.cruft.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "template": "https://github.com/scverse/cookiecutter-scverse",
-  "commit": "586b1652162ff7994b0070a034023d64289ae416",
-  "checkout": "v0.3.1",
+  "commit": "87a407a65408d75a949c0b54b19fd287475a56f8",
+  "checkout": "v0.4.0",
   "context": {
     "cookiecutter": {
       "project_name": "scCoral",
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index 3d0b14d..826ff44 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ jobs:
           - os: ubuntu-latest
             python: "3.10"
           - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: "3.11"
+            python: "3.12"
           - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: "3.11"
+            python: "3.12"
             pip-flags: "--pre"
             name: PRE-RELEASE DEPENDENCIES
 
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0f3c108..bd29caa 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ __pycache__/
 /.pytest_cache/
 /.cache/
 /data/
+/node_modules/
 
 # docs
 /docs/generated/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4b99ad9..e35aa0e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,9 +17,14 @@
 
 Increasing throughput in single-cell technologies enables researchers to create population-scale single-cell RNAseq datasets. An ongoing challenge in the analysis of this data is to link molecular features (i.e. single-cell gene expression) with patient-level covariates (e.g. disease severity, age, sex, ...). `sccoral` aims to find an interpretable link between subject/sample-level features and gene expression by embedding cellular metadata and gene expression in the same latent space of a variational autoencoder architecture {cite:p}`lopez2018`. By leveraging and improving the network architecture of linear scVI {cite:p}`svensson2020`, we aim to find a direct and interpretable link between embedded covariates and gene expression.
 
+<<<<<<< ours
 <!-- Please refer to the [documentation][link-docs]. In particular, the
 
 -   [API documentation][link-api]. -->
+=======
+You need to have Python 3.10 or newer installed on your system. If you don't have
+Python installed, we recommend installing [Mambaforge](https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge#mambaforge).
+>>>>>>> theirs
 
 ### Installation
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 2575b93..9ae1a89 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder.
-#
+
 # This file only contains a selection of the most common options. For a full
 # list see the documentation:
 # https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@
 
 html_context = {
     "display_github": True,  # Integrate GitHub
-    "github_user": "lucas-diedrich",  # Username
-    "github_repo": project_name,  # Repo name
-    "github_version": "main",  # Version
-    "conf_py_path": "/docs/",  # Path in the checkout to the docs root
+    "github_user": "lucas-diedrich",
+    "github_repo": "https://github.com/lucas-diedrich/sccoral",
+    "github_version": "main",
+    "conf_py_path": "/docs/",
 }
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/docs/contributing.md b/docs/contributing.md
index 0861dbb..a77620a 100644
--- a/docs/contributing.md
+++ b/docs/contributing.md
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ and [prettier][prettier-editors].
 ## Writing tests
 
 ```{note}
-Remember to first install the package with `pip install '-e[dev,test]'`
+Remember to first install the package with `pip install -e '.[dev,test]'`
 ```
 
 This package uses the [pytest][] for automated testing. Please [write tests][scanpy-test-docs] for every function added
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1e1b06d..09e7659 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ name = "sccoral"
 version = "0.0.1"
 description = "Covariate informed scVI with linear decoder"
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.9"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 license = {file = "LICENSE"}
 authors = [
     {name = "Lucas Diedrich"},
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ doc = [
     "docutils>=0.8,!=0.18.*,!=0.19.*",
     "sphinx>=4",
     "sphinx-book-theme>=1.0.0",
-    "myst-nb",
+    "myst-nb>=1.1.0",
     "sphinxcontrib-bibtex>=1.0.0",
     "sphinx-autodoc-typehints",
     "sphinxext-opengraph",
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ ignore = [
     "D107",
     # Errors from function calls in argument defaults. These are fine when the result is immutable.
     "B008",
-    # __magic__ methods are are often self-explanatory, allow missing docstrings
+    # __magic__ methods are often self-explanatory, allow missing docstrings
     "D105",
     # first line should end with a period [Bug: doesn't work with single-line docstrings]
     "D400",