diff --git a/docs/intro.rst b/docs/intro.rst
index e97e37a7..75d40609 100644
--- a/docs/intro.rst
+++ b/docs/intro.rst
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ From a checkout you can run the unit tests with:
 
 .. code-block:: shell
 
-    $ pip install nose
-    $ nosetests .
+    $ pip install pytest
+    $ pytest
 
 
 Using conda
diff --git a/pylintrc b/pylintrc
index 612f8108..45c80de1 100644
--- a/pylintrc
+++ b/pylintrc
@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@
 # Without ignoring this, we get errors like:
 # E:249,20: Module 'numpy' has no 'nan' member (no-member)
 ignored-modules = numpy
-ignored-classes = nose.tools
diff --git a/test/expensive_verify_pretrain_optimizable.py b/test/expensive_verify_pretrain_optimizable.py
index 618ca829..7ae92856 100644
--- a/test/expensive_verify_pretrain_optimizable.py
+++ b/test/expensive_verify_pretrain_optimizable.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Expensive test - not run by nose.
+# Expensive test - not run by pytest.
 
 from mhcflurry import train_pan_allele_models_command
 from mhcflurry.downloads import get_path