diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 575863f..07445b9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ rootutils       # standardizing the project root setup
 pre-commit      # hooks for applying linters on commit
 rich            # beautiful text formatting in terminal
 pytest          # tests
-anndata==0.10.6
+anndata==0.10.9
 networkx==3.2.1
 numpy==1.26.4
 omegaconf==2.3.0