diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/veryfasttree/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/veryfasttree/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d5d4c6231e69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/veryfasttree/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name   = "veryfasttree";
+  version = "3.1.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "citiususc";
+    repo = "${name}";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-AOzbxUnrn1qgscjdOKf4dordnSKtIg3nSVaYWK1jbuc=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    install -m755 -D VeryFastTree $out/bin/VeryFastTree
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Speeding up the estimation of phylogenetic trees for large alignments through parallelization and vectorization strategies";
+    license     = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    homepage    = "https://github.com/citiususc/veryfasttree";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ thyol ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index aa4255b0fa7a..ca9c6ecf709b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12901,6 +12901,8 @@ with pkgs;
     wxGTK = wxGTK32;
   };
 
+  veryfasttree = callPackage ../applications/science/biology/veryfasttree { };
+
   vlan = callPackage ../tools/networking/vlan { };
 
   vmtouch = callPackage ../tools/misc/vmtouch { };