diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/jags/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/jags/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3043df15da7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/jags/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, gfortran, liblapack, blas}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "JAGS-2.2.0";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/mcmc-jags/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "016xml4k99lmdwwjiabxin95k9p3q2zh4pcci8wwcqwlq5y205b6";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [gfortran liblapack blas];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "JAGS: Just Another Gibbs Sampler";
+    license     = "GPL2";
+    homepage    = http://www-ice.iarc.fr/~martyn/software/jags/;
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.andres];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1c6bba9fe08..1c0bafa1f69 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7281,6 +7281,8 @@ let
       libXmu libXext libXcursor;
   };
 
+  jags = callPackage ../applications/science/math/jags { };
+
   liblapack = callPackage ../development/libraries/science/math/liblapack { };