diff --git a/templates/generic_cell_clustering.ipynb b/templates/generic_cell_clustering.ipynb
index 5ebebcd8b..bbac7d88e 100644
--- a/templates/generic_cell_clustering.ipynb
+++ b/templates/generic_cell_clustering.ipynb
@@ -232,7 +232,11 @@
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
+    "tags": [
+     "normalize_param"
+    ]
+   },
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "normalize = True"
diff --git a/tests/utils/notebooks_test.py b/tests/utils/notebooks_test.py
index 82e4e41aa..044277fea 100644
--- a/tests/utils/notebooks_test.py
+++ b/tests/utils/notebooks_test.py
@@ -596,6 +596,9 @@ def test_cluster_prefix(self):
     def test_cell_cluster_files(self):
         self.tb.execute_cell("cell_cluster_files")
 
+    def test_normalization(self):
+        self.tb.execute_cell("normalize_param")
+
     def test_train_cell_som(self):
         self.tb.execute_cell("train_cell_som")