diff --git a/sci-biology/wgs-assembler/wgs-assembler-7.0-r2.ebuild b/sci-biology/wgs-assembler/wgs-assembler-7.0-r2.ebuild
index dd3669d010af6..fc5869667f027 100644
--- a/sci-biology/wgs-assembler/wgs-assembler-7.0-r2.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/wgs-assembler/wgs-assembler-7.0-r2.ebuild
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/wgs-${PV}.tar.bz2"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 x86"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
 IUSE="static-libs"
 
 DEPEND="