diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
index 4ff79188c19..16242c7860a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
@@ -5550,8 +5550,10 @@ package provides command line tools using the Bio++ library.")
                                        #$(this-package-input "bzip2"))
                         (string-append "--with-z="
                                        #$(this-package-input "zlib"))
-                        (string-append "--with-pcre="
-                                       #$(this-package-input "pcre"))
+                        (string-append "--with-sqlite3="
+                                       #$(this-package-input "sqlite"))
+                        (string-append "--with-boost="
+                                       #$(this-package-input "boost"))
                         ;; Each library is built twice by default, once
                         ;; with "-static" in its name, and again
                         ;; without.
@@ -5561,8 +5563,10 @@ package provides command line tools using the Bio++ library.")
                "lib"       ; 226 MB
                "include")) ;  33 MB
     (inputs
-     (list bzip2
+     (list boost-1.83
+           bzip2
            lmdb
+           sqlite
            zlib
            pcre
            perl