diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8e289ecc4..266acc070 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "seaborn>=0.12,<1",
     "spatial-lda>=0.1.3,<1",
     "statsmodels>=0.13.2,<1",
-    "tables>=3.7",
     "tifffile>=2022",
     "tqdm>=4,<5",
     "umap-learn>=0.5,<1.0",