diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7538192..77431f4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ requests
 numpy
 dataclasses
 pyyaml
-wbtools==3.0.8
+wbtools==3.0.12
 #git+https://github.com/WormBase/wbtools.git@develop
 scikit-learn
 sent2vec-prebuilt