diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 84885ea83fb43dbf2c4cc3bdfedecba8dd7d1341..019a2b6dc243ec9d3cc37239995809e78b7ccc2c 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -45,9 +45,7 @@ export(translate_and_count_stops)
 export(variant_classifier)
 export(veganify_asvcounts)
 export(veganify_generic_wide_tbl)
-import(Biostrings)
 import(DECIPHER)
-import(DNAStringSetList)
 import(dplyr)
 import(forcats)
 import(ggplot2)
diff --git a/R/variant_classifier.R b/R/variant_classifier.R
index 4eafec83c86c31f0a6a3bda8a6b7bb1df55ddcbe..aab21bccc53856cdae4df69fc4c1e7be63c4fc9b 100644
--- a/R/variant_classifier.R
+++ b/R/variant_classifier.R
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #'
 #' @return A modified master table with variant classifications
 #' @import dplyr purrr stringr tibble tidyr
-#' @import Biostrings DNAStringSetList
+#' @importFrom Biostrings DNAStringSetList
 #' @export
 
 variant_classifier <- function(