diff --git a/179_PICRUSt2/PICRUSt2-2.5.2-foss-2022b.eb b/179_PICRUSt2/PICRUSt2-2.5.2-foss-2022b.eb
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-easyblock = 'PythonBundle'
-
-name = 'PICRUSt2'
-version = '2.5.2'
-
-homepage = 'https://github.com/picrust/picrust2'
-description = """PICRUSt2 (Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by
- Reconstruction of Unobserved States) is a software for predicting
- functional abundances based only on marker gene sequences."""
-
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
-
-dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
-    ('h5py', '3.8.0'),
-    ('biom-format', '2.1.15'),
-]
-
-use_pip = True
-sanity_pip_check = True
-
-exts_list = [
-    ('joblib', '1.3.1', {
-        'checksums': ['1f937906df65329ba98013dc9692fe22a4c5e4a648112de500508b18a21b41e3'],
-    }),
-    (name, version, {
-        'modulename': '%(namelower)s',
-        'source_urls': ['https://github.com/picrust/%(namelower)s/archive'],
-        'source_tmpl': 'v%(version)s.tar.gz',
-        'checksums': ['a8c3832bf759233b52b41c56a0ffef72491e431fee347a7c05695596c76a1a4c'],
-    }),
-]
-
-sanity_check_commands = [
-    "python -c 'from picrust2.default import default_tables'"
-]
-
-moduleclass = 'bio'
diff --git a/179_PICRUSt2/biom-format-2.1.15-foss-2022b.eb b/179_PICRUSt2/biom-format-2.1.15-foss-2022b.eb
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-##
-# This is a contribution from DeepThought HPC Service, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
-# Homepage:     https://staff.flinders.edu.au/research/deep-thought
-#
-# Authors::     Robert Qiao <rob.qiao@flinders.edu.au>
-# License::     Revised BSD
-#
-# Notes:: updated by Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent) for foss/2021b
-##
-# Updated: Petr Král (INUITS)
-
-easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
-
-name = 'biom-format'
-version = '2.1.15'
-
-homepage = 'https://biom-format.org'
-description = """
-The BIOM file format (canonically pronounced biome) is designed to be
- a general-use format for representing biological sample by observation
- contingency tables. BIOM is a recognized standard for the Earth Microbiome
- Project and is a Genomics Standards Consortium supported project.
-"""
-
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022b'}
-toolchainopts = {'usempi': True}
-
-sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
-checksums = ['3bda2096e663dc1cb6f90f51b394da0838b9be5164a44370c134ce5b3b2a4dd3']
-
-dependencies = [
-    ('Python', '3.10.8'),
-    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.02'),
-    ('h5py', '3.8.0'),
-]
-
-use_pip = True
-sanity_pip_check = True
-download_dep_fail = True
-
-sanity_check_paths = {
-    'files': ['bin/biom'],
-    'dirs': ['lib'],
-}
-
-options = {'modulename': 'biom'}
-
-moduleclass = 'bio'