diff --git a/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-0.1.12.ebuild b/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-0.1.12.ebuild
index 34720e4b9abbd..d057288fcb9d5 100644
--- a/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-0.1.12.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-0.1.12.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=2
 
 MY_P="${P}a"
 
-DESCRIPTION="Utilities for SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map), a format for large nucleotide sequence alignments"
+DESCRIPTION="Utilities for analysing and manipulating the SAM/BAM alignment formats"
 HOMEPAGE="http://samtools.sourceforge.net/"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"