diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d561d611..526aaaba 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Imports:
     plyr,
     readxl,
     yaml,
-    synapser
+    synapser (>= 1.0.0)
 URL: https://github.com/nf-osi/nfportalutils
 BugReports: https://github.com/nf-osi/nfportalutils/issues
 Suggests: 
@@ -51,3 +51,5 @@ Suggests:
     withr
 Config/testthat/edition: 2
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
+Remotes:  
+    github::Sage-Bionetworks/synapser