diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7867c2c..ab5958f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
             "wheel>=0.34",
             'joblib>=0.11',
             'pysam>=0.16.0',
-            'scikit-learn==0.23.1',
+            'scikit-learn>=0.23.1',
             "PuLP>=2"
         ],
       description='phylogenetic assignment of named global outbreak lineages',