diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 283cbafc2ebf7443a455d0d4e77b4fedc807b114..da91f3e38069c36c2518ee045c32ef07dd44269f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ MySQL-python==1.2.4
 argparse==1.2.1
 biopython==1.63b
 configobj==4.7.2
-distribute==0.7.3
 lockfile==0.9.1
 lxml==3.2.4
 nose==1.3.0