diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index eee0e7f..bacd8fa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 bgzip==0.3.3
 biopython==1.78
 h5py==2.10.0
-nemo-toolkit==0.10.1
+nemo-toolkit==1.6.0
 numpy==1.18.3
 matplotlib==3.2.2
 pandas==1.0.1