diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ setup(
 	version=__version__,
 	packages=find_packages(),
 	python_requires='>=3.6',
-	install_requires=['h5py', 'numpy', 'scipy', 'setuptools'],
+	install_requires=['h5py', 'numpy', 'scipy', 'setuptools', 'pandas'],
 	extras_require=dict(colors=['matplotlib']),
 	# metadata for upload to PyPI
 	author="Linnarsson Lab",
FIXED loompy started to use pandas without requiring it explicitly

this was breaking velocyto