diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/kallisto/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/kallisto/default.nix
index a375df35dd3e..686a9de554e9 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/kallisto/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/kallisto/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoconf, cmake, hdf5, zlib }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoconf, cmake, hdf5, zlib, nix-update-script }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "kallisto";
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # Parallel build fails in some cases: https://github.com/pachterlab/kallisto/issues/160
   enableParallelBuilding = false;
 
+  passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script { };
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Program for quantifying abundances of transcripts from RNA-Seq data";
     mainProgram = "kallisto";