diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bf04ab5..19d9de0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ mappy==2.17
 wget==3.2
 psutil==5.7.0
 matplotlib==3.2.1
-numpy==1.18.5
+numpy==1.22.0
 pandas==1.0.4
 biopython==1.77
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