diff --git a/sci-biology/BBmap/BBmap-38.87.ebuild b/sci-biology/BBmap/BBmap-38.87.ebuild
index 7e196a47d41..c9ade12fed0 100644
--- a/sci-biology/BBmap/BBmap-38.87.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/BBmap/BBmap-38.87.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2
+inherit java-pkg-2
 
 DESCRIPTION="Short read aligner, K-mer-based error-correct and normalize, FASTA/Q tool"
 HOMEPAGE="https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbmap/"
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ src_prepare(){
 }
 
 src_compile(){
-	ant dist || die
+	eant dist
 }
 
 src_install(){
diff --git a/sci-biology/MeV/MeV-4.8.1.ebuild b/sci-biology/MeV/MeV-4.8.1.ebuild
index eb605976e58..8dde8df4082 100644
--- a/sci-biology/MeV/MeV-4.8.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/MeV/MeV-4.8.1.ebuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ EAPI=7
 
 MY_PV="${PV//./_}"
 
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2
+inherit java-pkg-2
 
 DESCRIPTION="Multiple experiment Viewer for genomic data analysis"
 HOMEPAGE="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mev-tm4/"
diff --git a/sci-biology/SnpEff/SnpEff-4.3t.ebuild b/sci-biology/SnpEff/SnpEff-4.3t.ebuild
index 843c0035664..b6b28513e78 100644
--- a/sci-biology/SnpEff/SnpEff-4.3t.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/SnpEff/SnpEff-4.3t.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2
+inherit java-pkg-2
 
 DESCRIPTION="SnpEff, SnpSift: Annotate SNP changes and predict effect in HGVS-compliant VCF"
 HOMEPAGE="https://pcingola.github.io/SnpEff/"
diff --git a/sci-biology/fastqc/fastqc-0.11.9.ebuild b/sci-biology/fastqc/fastqc-0.11.9.ebuild
index be2d3b3408c..99ae7984077 100644
--- a/sci-biology/fastqc/fastqc-0.11.9.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/fastqc/fastqc-0.11.9.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
-inherit desktop java-pkg-2 java-ant-2 xdg
+inherit desktop java-pkg-2 xdg
 
 DESCRIPTION="Quality control FASTA/FASTQ sequence files"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/"
diff --git a/sci-biology/genomeview-bin/genomeview-bin-2450.ebuild b/sci-biology/genomeview-bin/genomeview-bin-2450.ebuild
index 9d4480272ea..3244e79b59f 100644
--- a/sci-biology/genomeview-bin/genomeview-bin-2450.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/genomeview-bin/genomeview-bin-2450.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-inherit java-pkg-opt-2 java-ant-2
+inherit java-pkg-opt-2
 
 DESCRIPTION="Genome browser and annotation tool"
 HOMEPAGE="https://genomeview.sourceforge.net"
diff --git a/sci-biology/imagej/imagej-1.54i-r1.ebuild b/sci-biology/imagej/imagej-1.54i-r1.ebuild
index f95167bcdf5..848aa93805e 100644
--- a/sci-biology/imagej/imagej-1.54i-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/imagej/imagej-1.54i-r1.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2 desktop
+inherit java-pkg-2 desktop
 
 MY_PN="ij"
 IJ_PV="154" #plugins now available for 154
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ src_compile() {
 	local antflags="build"
 	use doc && antflags="${antflags} javadocs"
 
-	ant ${antflags} || die  "ant build failed"
+	eant ${antflags}
 
 	# Max memory usage depends on available memory and CPU type
 	MEM=$(grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo | cut -d':' -f2 | grep -o [0-9]*)
diff --git a/sci-biology/imagej/imagej-9999.ebuild b/sci-biology/imagej/imagej-9999.ebuild
index f95167bcdf5..5497e9a83b1 100644
--- a/sci-biology/imagej/imagej-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/imagej/imagej-9999.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2 desktop
+inherit java-pkg-2 desktop
 
 MY_PN="ij"
 IJ_PV="154" #plugins now available for 154
diff --git a/sci-biology/jtreeview-bin/jtreeview-bin-1.2.0.ebuild b/sci-biology/jtreeview-bin/jtreeview-bin-1.2.0.ebuild
index 63ec84d2f82..d386ca896d9 100644
--- a/sci-biology/jtreeview-bin/jtreeview-bin-1.2.0.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/jtreeview-bin/jtreeview-bin-1.2.0.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2 perl-module
+inherit java-pkg-2 perl-module
 
 S="${WORKDIR}"/TreeView-1.1.6r4-bin
 
diff --git a/sci-biology/trimmomatic/trimmomatic-0.39.ebuild b/sci-biology/trimmomatic/trimmomatic-0.39.ebuild
index 3b491b3900e..dd1faa7495d 100644
--- a/sci-biology/trimmomatic/trimmomatic-0.39.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/trimmomatic/trimmomatic-0.39.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2
+inherit java-pkg-2
 
 DESCRIPTION="Illumina adapter trimming tool"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.usadellab.org/cms/?page=trimmomatic"
diff --git a/sci-chemistry/jligand/jligand-1.0.40.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/jligand/jligand-1.0.40.ebuild
index 879964bbf7f..d81a7c2b452 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/jligand/jligand-1.0.40.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/jligand/jligand-1.0.40.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2
+inherit java-pkg-2
 
 MY_PN="JLigand"