diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 6dbf85b..4d7751a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -12,11 +12,17 @@ Authors@R:
            email = "annsize@upenn.edu"))
 biocViews: 
 Imports:
+    boot,
     data.table,
+    digest,
+    Hmisc,
     microbenchmark,
     S4Vectors,
+    SpiecEasi (>= 1.1.1),
     stringi,
     purrr
+Remotes:
+    zdk123/SpiecEasi
 URL: https://github.com/VEuPathDB/veupathUtils
 BugReports: https://github.com/VEuPathDB/veupathUtils/issues
 Description: veupathUtils contains various R helper functions intended to be useful across a variety of projects, including the plot.data and microbiomeComputations packages.
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 70ef4cb..4db34fd 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -148,4 +148,3 @@ importFrom(microbenchmark,microbenchmark)
 importFrom(purrr,map)
 importFrom(purrr,map_lgl)
 importFrom(stringi,stri_detect_regex)
-useDynLib(microbiomeComputations)
diff --git a/R/method-correlation.R b/R/method-correlation.R
index 3546a69..2f5ef8a 100644
--- a/R/method-correlation.R
+++ b/R/method-correlation.R
@@ -58,9 +58,7 @@ setMethod("predicateFactory", signature("character", "numeric"), function(predic
 #' @param format string defining the desired format of the result. The currently supported values are 'data.table' and 'ComputeResult'.
 #' @param verbose boolean indicating if timed logging is desired
 #' @return data.frame with correlation coefficients or a ComputeResult object
-#' @import veupathUtils
 #' @import data.table
-#' @useDynLib microbiomeComputations
 #' @export
 setGeneric("correlation",
   function(data1, data2, method, format = c('ComputeResult', 'data.table'), verbose = c(TRUE, FALSE), ...) standardGeneric("correlation"),
@@ -261,7 +259,6 @@ buildCorrelationComputeResult <- function(corrResult, data1, data2 = NULL, metho
 #' @param format string defining the desired format of the result. The currently supported values are 'data.table' and 'ComputeResult'.
 #' @param verbose boolean indicating if timed logging is desired
 #' @return ComputeResult object
-#' @import veupathUtils
 #' @export
 setGeneric("selfCorrelation",
   function(data, method = c('spearman','pearson','sparcc'), format = c('ComputeResult', 'data.table'), verbose = c(TRUE, FALSE), ...) standardGeneric("selfCorrelation"),
@@ -271,14 +268,13 @@ setGeneric("selfCorrelation",
 #' Self Correlation
 #'
 #' This function returns correlation coefficients for variables in one data.table against itself.
-#' This is essentially an alias to the microbiomeComputations::correlation function.
+#' This is essentially an alias to the veupathUtils::correlation function.
 #' 
 #' @param data a data.table
 #' @param method string defining the type of correlation to run. The currently supported values are 'spearman', 'pearson' and 'sparcc'
 #' @param format string defining the desired format of the result. The currently supported values are 'data.table' and 'ComputeResult'.
 #' @param verbose boolean indicating if timed logging is desired
 #' @return ComputeResult object
-#' @import veupathUtils
 #' @export
 setMethod("selfCorrelation", signature("data.table"), 
 function(data, method = c('spearman','pearson','sparcc'), format = c('ComputeResult', 'data.table'), verbose = c(TRUE, FALSE)) {
diff --git a/man/selfCorrelation-data.table-method.Rd b/man/selfCorrelation-data.table-method.Rd
index 061c472..07ab971 100644
--- a/man/selfCorrelation-data.table-method.Rd
+++ b/man/selfCorrelation-data.table-method.Rd
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ ComputeResult object
 }
 \description{
 This function returns correlation coefficients for variables in one data.table against itself.
-This is essentially an alias to the microbiomeComputations::correlation function.
+This is essentially an alias to the veupathUtils::correlation function.
 }