diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
index 42476a4b2f..d6dd6f8987 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
@@ -11624,7 +11624,7 @@ (define-public kallisto
              #t)))))
     (inputs
      `(("hdf5" ,hdf5)
-       ("htslib" ,htslib)
+       ("htslib" ,htslib-1.9)
        ("zlib" ,zlib)))
     (home-page "https://pachterlab.github.io/kallisto/")
     (synopsis "Near-optimal RNA-Seq quantification")