diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-package-conda.yml b/.github/workflows/python-package-conda.yml
index 25d8fa30..f0c017b7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-package-conda.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-package-conda.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         micromamba --version
         micromamba env list
+        micromamba list -n drop_test
 
 #    - name: Install dependencies
 #      run: mamba env update -f environment.yml
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7ec3610d..16ad4982 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ For more information on different installation options, refer to the
 [documentation](https://gagneurlab-drop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html)
 
 ## What's new
+Version 1.6.1 fixes issues due to the new way to import functions in txdbmaker and GenomeInfoDb with the new BioC release 3.22 and above.
 
 Version 1.6.0 contains a fix to a bug in the counting of the aberrant expression module ⚠️ . In addition, it contains a fix to the assignment of variants to genes in the MAE module. Please do not use v1.5.0.
 
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 70efa72c..d73186a2 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 author = 'Michaela Müller'
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release_ = '1.6.0'
+release_ = '1.6.1'
 
 
 
diff --git a/drop/__init__.py b/drop/__init__.py
index 296c3eed..280418f8 100644
--- a/drop/__init__.py
+++ b/drop/__init__.py
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 from . import demo
 
 
-__version__ = "1.6.0"
+__version__ = "1.6.1"
diff --git a/drop/cli.py b/drop/cli.py
index 174c65e6..3d61406b 100644
--- a/drop/cli.py
+++ b/drop/cli.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 @click.group(invoke_without_command=True)
 @click_log.simple_verbosity_option(logger)
-@click.version_option('1.6.0',prog_name='drop')
+@click.version_option('1.6.1',prog_name='drop')
 
 def main():
     ctx = click.get_current_context()
diff --git a/drop/modules/aberrant-expression-pipeline/Counting/countReads.R b/drop/modules/aberrant-expression-pipeline/Counting/countReads.R
index 2fc85d70..b807383d 100644
--- a/drop/modules/aberrant-expression-pipeline/Counting/countReads.R
+++ b/drop/modules/aberrant-expression-pipeline/Counting/countReads.R
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ suppressPackageStartupMessages({
   library(Rsamtools)
   library(BiocParallel)
   library(GenomicAlignments)
+  library(GenomeInfoDb)
 })
 
 # Get strand specific information from sample annotation
diff --git a/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/Counting/03_filter_expression_FraseR.R b/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/Counting/03_filter_expression_FraseR.R
index 878e1d72..b3acc028 100644
--- a/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/Counting/03_filter_expression_FraseR.R
+++ b/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/Counting/03_filter_expression_FraseR.R
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
 saveRDS(snakemake, snakemake@log$snakemake)
 source(snakemake@params$setup, echo=FALSE)
 
+suppressPackageStartupMessages({
+  library(GenomeInfoDb)
+})
+
 opts_chunk$set(fig.width=12, fig.height=8)
 
 # input
diff --git a/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/Counting/exportCounts.R b/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/Counting/exportCounts.R
index ab9e77c6..4a115a66 100644
--- a/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/Counting/exportCounts.R
+++ b/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/Counting/exportCounts.R
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@
 saveRDS(snakemake, snakemake@log$snakemake)
 source(snakemake@params$setup, echo=FALSE)
 
-library(AnnotationDbi)
+suppressPackageStartupMessages({
+  library(AnnotationDbi)
+  library(GenomeInfoDb)
+})
 
 # 
 # input
diff --git a/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/FRASER/06_annotate_genes.R b/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/FRASER/06_annotate_genes.R
index b4ca0412..39cbe548 100644
--- a/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/FRASER/06_annotate_genes.R
+++ b/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/FRASER/06_annotate_genes.R
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@
 
 saveRDS(snakemake, snakemake@log$snakemake)
 source(snakemake@params$setup, echo=FALSE)
-library(AnnotationDbi)
+
+suppressPackageStartupMessages({
+  library(AnnotationDbi)
+  library(GenomeInfoDb)
+})
 
 annotation <- snakemake@wildcards$annotation
 dataset    <- snakemake@wildcards$dataset
diff --git a/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/config.R b/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/config.R
index 9cb39ab3..01b84124 100644
--- a/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/config.R
+++ b/drop/modules/aberrant-splicing-pipeline/config.R
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ suppressPackageStartupMessages({
     library(plotly)
     library(DelayedMatrixStats)
     library(FRASER)
-  library(rhdf5)
+    library(rhdf5)
 })
 
 
diff --git a/drop/modules/mae-pipeline/MAE/Results.R b/drop/modules/mae-pipeline/MAE/Results.R
index cb76d59a..61b83488 100644
--- a/drop/modules/mae-pipeline/MAE/Results.R
+++ b/drop/modules/mae-pipeline/MAE/Results.R
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ suppressPackageStartupMessages({
   library(SummarizedExperiment)
   library(R.utils)
   library(dplyr)
+  library(GenomeInfoDb)
 })
 
 # Read annotation and convert into GRanges
diff --git a/drop/modules/mae-pipeline/QC/create_matrix_dna_rna_cor.R b/drop/modules/mae-pipeline/QC/create_matrix_dna_rna_cor.R
index 38b60de4..1cbefc59 100644
--- a/drop/modules/mae-pipeline/QC/create_matrix_dna_rna_cor.R
+++ b/drop/modules/mae-pipeline/QC/create_matrix_dna_rna_cor.R
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ suppressPackageStartupMessages({
   library(magrittr)
   library(BiocParallel)
   library(data.table)
+  library(GenomeInfoDb)
 })
 
 register(MulticoreParam(snakemake@threads))
diff --git a/drop/template/Scripts/Pipeline/preprocessGeneAnnotation.R b/drop/template/Scripts/Pipeline/preprocessGeneAnnotation.R
index 68d99364..599a3cfd 100644
--- a/drop/template/Scripts/Pipeline/preprocessGeneAnnotation.R
+++ b/drop/template/Scripts/Pipeline/preprocessGeneAnnotation.R
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ suppressPackageStartupMessages({
   library(data.table)
   library(rtracklayer)
   library(magrittr)
+  library(txdbmaker)
+  library(GenomeInfoDb)
 })
 
 ## Create txdb
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 56b8ea2a..c5d71c66 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -1,18 +1,55 @@
 name: drop_test
+
 channels:
   - conda-forge
   - bioconda
+
 dependencies:
-  - python>=3.11
-  - r-base>=4.4
+  - python >=3.11
   - pip
-  - pandas>=3.0
-  - drop
-  - snakemake>=5,<8
-  - flake8
-  - bioconductor-bsgenome.hsapiens.ucsc.hg19
-  - wbuild>1.8.0
+  - pandas >=3.0
+  - Click >=7.0
+  - click-log
+  - python-dateutil
+
+  # snakemake/wbuild
+  - wbuild >=1.8=pyhdfd78af_2
+  - snakemake >=5.5.2,<8
+  - pandoc
+  - graphviz
+
+  # command line tools
+  - bc
+  - wget
+  - htslib
+  - samtools >=1.9
+  - bcftools >=1.9
+  - gatk4 >=4.0.4
+  - star >=2.7
+
+  # R dependencies
+  - r-base >=4.4
   - r-dt
+  - r-rmarkdown
+  - r-knitr
+  - r-ggplot2
+  - r-ggthemes
+  - r-cowplot
+  - r-data.table
+  - r-dplyr
+  - r-tidyr
+  - r-magrittr
+  - r-devtools
+  - r-tmae >=1.0.5
+  
+  # bioconductor packages
+  - bioconductor-deseq2
+  - bioconductor-genomicscores
+  - bioconductor-outrider >=1.28
+  - bioconductor-fraser >=2.6
+  - bioconductor-variantannotation
 
-  # required for downloading R packages through github
+  # testing dependencies
+  - flake8
+  - bioconductor-bsgenome.hsapiens.ucsc.hg19
   - unzip
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index e2046bfc..8097d37c 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [bumpversion]
 
-current_version = 1.6.0
+current_version = 1.6.1
 commit = True
 
 [bumpversion:file:setup.py]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b4217231..ebc37967 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     'pandas>=3.0',
 ]
 
-extra_files = []
+extra_files: list[str] = []
 for (path, directories, filenames) in os.walk('drop/'):
     directories[:] = [d for d in directories if not d.startswith('.')] 
     filenames[:] = [f for f in filenames if not f.startswith('.') and not f.endswith('.Rproj')]
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="drop",
-    version="1.6.0",
+    version="1.6.1",
     author="Vicente A. Yépez, Michaela Müller, Nicholas H. Smith, Ata Jadid Ahari, Daniela Klaproth-Andrade, Luise Schuller, Ines Scheller, Christian Mertes <mertes@in.tum.de>, Julien Gagneur <gagneur@in.tum.de>",
     author_email="yepez@in.tum.de",
     description="Detection of RNA Outlier Pipeline",
diff --git a/tests/full_test_run/full_kremer_test.sh b/tests/full_test_run/full_kremer_test.sh
index ac67533f..12675410 100755
--- a/tests/full_test_run/full_kremer_test.sh
+++ b/tests/full_test_run/full_kremer_test.sh
@@ -20,11 +20,10 @@ cd ${run_folder}
 
 # create test env first
 env_path=${TMP}/env/env-$(basename ${run_folder})
-mkdir -p env
-mamba create -y -p ${env_path} \
-    "drop>=1.5" "pandoc>=2.4" "r-base>=4.4" \
-    "python>=3.12" "pip>=26.0" "yq>=3.4" \
-    "pandas>=3.0"
+mkdir -p $(dirname ${env_path})
+wget "https://github.com/gagneurlab/drop/blob/${branch_name}/environment.yml"
+yq -r '.dependencies[] | strings' environment.yml > environment.txt
+mamba create -y -p ${env_path} --file ./environment.txt
 source $(dirname ${CONDA_EXE})/activate ${env_path}
 
 # Report locations in the end
@@ -35,12 +34,6 @@ trap report_folder_on_exit EXIT
 trap report_folder_on_exit INT
 
 
-# Install R data packages required for the pipeline
-Rscript -e "options(repos=structure(c(CRAN='https://cloud.r-project.org')), warn = -1); install.packages('BiocManager');"
-Rscript -e "BiocManager::install('BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19')" &
-Rscript -e "BiocManager::install('MafDb.gnomAD.r2.1.hs37d5')" &
-wait
-
 # install version from git branch
 pip install --no-deps --force-reinstall \
     "git+https://github.com/gagneurlab/drop@${branch_name}"
diff --git a/tests/full_test_run/kremer_test.R b/tests/full_test_run/kremer_test.R
index d72b5e7f..02b44e20 100644
--- a/tests/full_test_run/kremer_test.R
+++ b/tests/full_test_run/kremer_test.R
@@ -124,3 +124,5 @@ qc_match_anno <- sapply(seq_len(nrow(qc_matches)), function(x){
 stopifnot(qc_match_anno)
 
 
+# report success
+message("All checks passed!")
\ No newline at end of file