diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-app.yml b/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
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+# This workflow will install Python dependencies, run tests and lint with a single version of Python
+# For more information see: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/automating-builds-and-tests/building-and-testing-python
+
+name: Taverna
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: 
+    - main
+    - develop
+  pull_request:
+    branches: 
+    - main
+    - develop
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up Python 3.10
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+      with:
+        python-version: "3.10"
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install flake8 pytest
+        if [ -f backend/requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r backend/requirements.txt; fi
+    - name: Lint with flake8
+      run: |
+        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+        flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+    - name: Test with pytest
+      env:
+        JWT_SECRET_KEY: ${{ secrets.SECRET_KEY }}
+        MONGODB_URI: ${{ secrets.MONGODB_URI }}
+        FLASK_ENV: ${{ secrets.FLASK_ENV }}
+      run: pytest --disable-warnings
diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
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--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
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-bcrypt==4.1.2
-dnspython==2.6.1
-Flask==3.0.2
-Flask-PyMongo==2.3.0
-pymongo==4.6.2
-python-dotenv==1.0.1
-waitress==3.0.0
-flask_cors==4.0.0
-PyJWT==2.8.0
-flask-jwt-extended==4.6.0
-pytest==8.2.0
-pytest-cov==5.0.0
-coverage==7.5.1
-pytest-mock==3.14.0
-mongomock==4.1.2
-setuptools==70.0.0