diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
index 5c018bdef0..38ce2c099f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
@@ -5312,14 +5312,14 @@ (define-public r-deseq2
 (define-public r-annotationforge
   (package
     (name "r-annotationforge")
-    (version "1.14.2")
+    (version "1.16.0")
     (source
      (origin
        (method url-fetch)
        (uri (bioconductor-uri "AnnotationForge" version))
        (sha256
         (base32
-         "1vkdd1qdv5g680ipw4vwjvn52xn66xpg6ngmwyknz77ckxnnpf4q"))))
+         "02msyb9p3hywrryx00zpjkjl126mrv827i1ah1092s0cplm6xxvf"))))
     (properties
      `((upstream-name . "AnnotationForge")))
     (build-system r-build-system)
@@ -5328,6 +5328,7 @@ (define-public r-annotationforge
        ("r-biobase" ,r-biobase)
        ("r-biocgenerics" ,r-biocgenerics)
        ("r-dbi" ,r-dbi)
+       ("r-rcurl" ,r-rcurl)
        ("r-rsqlite" ,r-rsqlite)
        ("r-s4vectors" ,r-s4vectors)
        ("r-xml" ,r-xml)))