diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm b/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm
index 62ec80397c1343cfad9503d56449eac96e441410..c5ad29297cdb294e609f70533b4adc9d0e1f26bf 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm
@@ -7274,3 +7274,47 @@ (define-public r-biocor
 and combined with other similarities.  They can be used to improve networks,
 gene selection, testing relationships, and so on.")
     (license license:expat)))
+
+(define-public r-biocpkgtools
+  (package
+    (name "r-biocpkgtools")
+    (version "1.4.0")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (bioconductor-uri "BiocPkgTools" version))
+       (sha256
+        (base32
+         "0gyhb3071pxmvaxla7cxy9k97s3z3ynl62jnqz9jnkd53c7jnd53"))))
+    (properties `((upstream-name . "BiocPkgTools")))
+    (build-system r-build-system)
+    (propagated-inputs
+     `(("r-biocmanager" ,r-biocmanager)
+       ("r-biocviews" ,r-biocviews)
+       ("r-dplyr" ,r-dplyr)
+       ("r-dt" ,r-dt)
+       ("r-gh" ,r-gh)
+       ("r-graph" ,r-graph)
+       ("r-htmltools" ,r-htmltools)
+       ("r-htmlwidgets" ,r-htmlwidgets)
+       ("r-httr" ,r-httr)
+       ("r-igraph" ,r-igraph)
+       ("r-jsonlite" ,r-jsonlite)
+       ("r-magrittr" ,r-magrittr)
+       ("r-rbgl" ,r-rbgl)
+       ("r-readr" ,r-readr)
+       ("r-rex" ,r-rex)
+       ("r-rvest" ,r-rvest)
+       ("r-stringr" ,r-stringr)
+       ("r-tibble" ,r-tibble)
+       ("r-tidyr" ,r-tidyr)
+       ("r-xml2" ,r-xml2)))
+    (home-page "https://github.com/seandavi/BiocPkgTools")
+    (synopsis "Collection of tools for learning about Bioconductor packages")
+    (description
+     "Bioconductor has a rich ecosystem of metadata around packages, usage,
+and build status.  This package is a simple collection of functions to access
+that metadata from R.  The goal is to expose metadata for data mining and
+value-added functionality such as package searching, text mining, and
+analytics on packages.")
+    (license license:expat)))