diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
index 2ffe7f7f9f..6c9c1af33d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ (define-module (gnu packages bioinformatics)
   #:use-module (gnu packages serialization)
   #:use-module (gnu packages shells)
   #:use-module (gnu packages sphinx)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages sqlite)
   #:use-module (gnu packages statistics)
   #:use-module (gnu packages swig)
   #:use-module (gnu packages tbb)
@@ -13676,7 +13677,8 @@ (define-public pplacer
          ("ocaml-sqlite3" ,(package-with-ocaml4.07 ocaml-sqlite3))
          ("ocaml-xmlm" ,(package-with-ocaml4.07 ocaml-xmlm))
          ("ocaml-mcl" ,(package-with-ocaml4.07 ocaml-mcl))
-         ("ocaml-gsl" ,ocaml4.07-gsl-1)))
+         ("ocaml-gsl" ,ocaml4.07-gsl-1)
+         ("sqlite:static" ,sqlite "static")))
       (native-inputs
        `(("cddlib-src" ,(package-source cddlib))
          ("ocamlbuild" ,(package-with-ocaml4.07 ocamlbuild))