diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 77ce76d..763cc1e 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 # Pull base image.
 FROM ubuntu:16.04
 
+ARG species=all
+
 RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y software-properties-common python-software-properties
 
 # Install Java.
@@ -27,8 +29,12 @@ WORKDIR /data
 ADD owlsim-services/target/owlsim-services-3.0-SNAPSHOT.jar /data/
 ADD configuration-samples/configuration-all.yaml /data/configuration.yaml
 
-ADD http://ci.monarchinitiative.org/view/dev/job/create-owlsim-files-on-dev/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/server/all.owl /data/
-ADD https://raw.githubusercontent.com/monarch-initiative/monarch-owlsim-data/master/data/Homo_sapiens/Hs_disease_phenotype.txt /data/
+RUN if [ $species = "human" ];  \
+  then \
+    wget https://data.monarchinitiative.org/owl/all-hp.owl -O /data/all.owl; \
+  else \
+    wget http://ci.monarchinitiative.org/view/dev/job/create-owlsim-files-on-dev/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/server/all.owl -O /data/all.owl; \
+  fi
 
 CMD java -jar /data/owlsim-services-3.0-SNAPSHOT.jar server /data/configuration.yaml
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f80f5bd..7fd2ddc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -64,10 +64,18 @@ http://localhost:8080/api/match/jaccard?id=X:heart-morphology&id=X:brain-morphol
 
 ## Build with Docker
 
-Run those commands from the root directory:
+Run those commands from the root directory (with Docker >= 1.9):
 
 ```
 mvn package
-docker build -t owlsim .
-docker run -p 8080:8080 owlsim
+docker build -t owlsim-all . # by default contains all the species
+docker run -p 8080:8080 owlsim-all
+```
+
+To restrict to specific species:
+
+```
+docker build --build-arg species=all -t owlsim-all . # default if no args is provided or not matching any species
+docker build --build-arg species=human -t owlsim-human
+
 ```