diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index dc1365f8..f35ebe64 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
       description='RNA-Seq pipeline for the Pavlidis Lab',
       license='Public Domain',
       long_description='file: README.md',
+      long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
       url='https://github.com/pavlidisLab/rnaseq-pipeline',
       author='Guillaume Poirier-Morency',
       author_email='poirigui@msl.ubc.ca',