diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
index 10bd06eeb5..9c196af835 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
@@ -13345,14 +13345,12 @@ (define-public r-scseqcomm
              r-doparallel
              r-dplyr
              r-foreach
-             ;;r-grid ;; listed in DESCRIPTION
              r-gridextra
              r-ggplot2
              r-gtable
              r-htmlwidgets
              r-igraph
              r-matrix
-             ;;r-methods ;; listed in DESCRIPTION
              r-org-hs-eg-db
              r-psych
              r-rcolorbrewer