diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/emboss/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/emboss/default.nix
index 427eb0a432e..96181c8ee6c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/emboss/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/emboss/default.nix
@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, readline, perl, libX11, libpng, libXt, zlib}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "emboss-5.0.0-9";
+  name = "emboss-6.0.1";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-5.0.0.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "1bj0bxfj97cgnk3w3123cqn5sq5xsbvzs8bzvqkgy6d7hadz1rk4";
-  };
-  patch = fetchurl {
-    url = ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/fixes/patches/patch-1-9.gz;
-    sha256 = "1pfn5zdxrr71c3kwpdkzmmsqvdwkmynkvcr707vqh73h9cjhk3c1";
+    url = ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-6.0.1.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0g939k9wmpvmy55hqmbbzj6kj6agg4izymv492zqiawxm812jd9y";
   };
+  # patch = fetchurl {
+  #   url = ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/fixes/patches/patch-1-9.gz;
+  #   sha256 = "1pfn5zdxrr71c3kwpdkzmmsqvdwkmynkvcr707vqh73h9cjhk3c1";
+  # };
 
   buildInputs = [readline perl libpng libX11 libXt zlib];
 
-  preConfigure = ''
-    gzip -d $patch | patch -p1
-  '';
+  # preConfigure = ''
+  #   gzip -d $patch | patch -p1
+  # '';
 
   meta = {
     description     = "EMBOSS is 'The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite'";
     longDescription = ''EMBOSS is a free Open Source software analysis package
     specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet)
-    user community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety of
-    formats and even allows transparent retrieval of sequence data from the
-    web.'';
+    user community, including libraries. The software automatically copes with
+    data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of
+    sequence data from the web.''; 
     license     = "GPL2";
     homepage    = http://emboss.sourceforge.net/;
   };