diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-app.yml b/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
index f3d4fca..bf071e6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install flake8 pytest
-        if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+        pip install flake8 pytest poetry
+	poetry install
     - name: Lint with flake8
       run: |
         # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9e84fb0..007479e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = ["Indico Data <rd@indicodata.ai>"]
 packages = [ { include = "sequence_metrics" } ]
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = ">=3.7"
+python = ">=3.10"
 spacy = "~3.0.0"
 scikit-learn = "~1.0.0"