diff --git a/jupyter_notebooks/createModel.ipynb b/jupyter_notebooks/createModel.ipynb
index 6ef050f7..572b5b59 100644
--- a/jupyter_notebooks/createModel.ipynb
+++ b/jupyter_notebooks/createModel.ipynb
@@ -202,19 +202,6 @@
     "species_sheet = np.array([np.array(line.strip().split(\"\\t\")) for line in open('Species.txt', encoding='latin-1')])"
    ]
   },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "#read in each line minus the header row of species file\n",
-    "species_compartments = [] # Create a list of \"home\" compartments for each species in the model\n",
-    "for row in species_sheet[1:]:\n",
-    "    species_compartments.append(row[1]) \n",
-    "species_compartments = np.array(species_compartments)"
-   ]
-  },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},
@@ -232,7 +219,7 @@
     "fileModel.write(\"\\n\")\n",
     "for idx,val in enumerate(species_sheet[1:]):\n",
     "    fileModel.write(\"  Species \")\n",
-    "    fileModel.write(\"%s in %s\" % (val[0], species_compartments[idx]))\n",
+    "    fileModel.write(\"%s in %s\" % (val[0], val[1]))\n",
     "    fileModel.write(\";\\n\")"
    ]
   },