diff --git a/biology/p5-Bio-DB-NCBIHelper/Makefile b/biology/p5-Bio-DB-NCBIHelper/Makefile
index cd15cceb8d1..8c73aac7ef8 100644
--- a/biology/p5-Bio-DB-NCBIHelper/Makefile
+++ b/biology/p5-Bio-DB-NCBIHelper/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 COMMENT =		collection of routines useful for queries to NCBI databases
 
-DISTNAME =		Bio-DB-NCBIHelper-1.7.7
+DISTNAME =		Bio-DB-NCBIHelper-1.7.8
 
 CATEGORIES =		biology
 
diff --git a/biology/p5-Bio-DB-NCBIHelper/distinfo b/biology/p5-Bio-DB-NCBIHelper/distinfo
index f256b03e294..a5dfb005b17 100644
--- a/biology/p5-Bio-DB-NCBIHelper/distinfo
+++ b/biology/p5-Bio-DB-NCBIHelper/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (Bio-DB-NCBIHelper-1.7.7.tar.gz) = uQv7uqp3LI2gIxMMLj+FtaDNbezElzzWFaMzRBBie1w=
-SIZE (Bio-DB-NCBIHelper-1.7.7.tar.gz) = 45290
+SHA256 (Bio-DB-NCBIHelper-1.7.8.tar.gz) = +OKnOchyYIokADpkKmhrbpxyr1mjvArO6m5aXC6l7L8=
+SIZE (Bio-DB-NCBIHelper-1.7.8.tar.gz) = 45770