diff --git a/academic/tophat/README b/academic/tophat/README
index 79c93851ff..f848a30702 100644
--- a/academic/tophat/README
+++ b/academic/tophat/README
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, the Departments of Mathematics
 and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California,
 Berkeley and the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at
 Harvard University.
+
+A recommended dependency is bowtie2.
diff --git a/academic/tophat/slack-desc b/academic/tophat/slack-desc
index 51a89d7703..24853f0af5 100644
--- a/academic/tophat/slack-desc
+++ b/academic/tophat/slack-desc
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ tophat: high-throughput short read aligner Bowtie, and then analyzes the
 tophat: mapping results to identify splice junctions between exons.
 tophat:
 tophat: Home: http://tophat.cbcb.umd.edu/
-tophat: References: /usr/doc/tophat-2.0.11/References
+tophat: References: /usr/doc/tophat-2.0.13/References
 tophat:
 tophat:
diff --git a/academic/tophat/tophat.SlackBuild b/academic/tophat/tophat.SlackBuild
index 9985b3e560..f6785c79fe 100644
--- a/academic/tophat/tophat.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/tophat/tophat.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for tophat
 
-# Copyright 2013-2014 Petar Petrov, petar.petrov@student.oulu.fi
+# Copyright 2013-2015 Petar Petrov, petar.petrov@student.oulu.fi
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=tophat
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.0.12}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.0.13}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/academic/tophat/tophat.info b/academic/tophat/tophat.info
index 09c13df77d..37dc3fe290 100644
--- a/academic/tophat/tophat.info
+++ b/academic/tophat/tophat.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="tophat"
-VERSION="2.0.12"
+VERSION="2.0.13"
 HOMEPAGE="http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/tophat/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/tophat/downloads/tophat-2.0.12.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="b419604b45d94f6e878a141f05dd1d75"
+DOWNLOAD="http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/tophat/downloads/tophat-2.0.13.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="df5c22c85d7c631ee37f61e91f81ae4d"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES="bowtie2 samtools"
+REQUIRES=""
 MAINTAINER="Petar Petrov"
 EMAIL="petar.petrov@student.oulu.fi"