diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c893313..ac13d28 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ coverage==4.5.3
 Sphinx==2.1.2
 twine==1.13.0
 xlrd==1.2.0
-pandas==0.25.0
+pandas==2.0.2
 click==7.0
 click-log==0.3.2
 cutadapt==2.4