diff --git a/etc/requirements_sci.txt b/etc/requirements_sci.txt
index 294459d9..f138534c 100644
--- a/etc/requirements_sci.txt
+++ b/etc/requirements_sci.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Cython==0.15.1
 patsy==0.1.0
 statsmodels>=0.5.0
 scikit-learn==0.11
-cvxopt==1.1.5
 
 # ZeroMQ
 pyzmq==2.1.11