diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 5614627db0d..ba5ee757a7c 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
   antonxy = "Anton Schirg <anton.schirg@posteo.de>";
   apeschar = "Albert Peschar <albert@peschar.net>";
   apeyroux = "Alexandre Peyroux <alex@px.io>";
+  arcadio = "Arcadio Rubio García <arc@well.ox.ac.uk>";
   ardumont = "Antoine R. Dumont <eniotna.t@gmail.com>";
   aristid = "Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb@gmail.com>";
   arobyn = "Alexei Robyn <shados@shados.net>";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/kallisto/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/kallisto/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d80ffea9a78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/kallisto/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, hdf5, zlib }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "kallisto-${version}";
+  version = "0.43.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    repo = "kallisto";
+    owner = "pachterlab";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "04697pf7jvy7vw126s1rn09q4iab9223jvb1nb0jn7ilwkq7pgwz";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+  
+  buildInputs = [ hdf5 zlib ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "kallisto is a program for quantifying abundances of transcripts from RNA-Seq data";
+    homepage = https://pachterlab.github.io/kallisto;
+    license = licenses.bsd2;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.arcadio ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4b3a5223f10..a48f43fc9ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -18945,6 +18945,8 @@ with pkgs;
     neuron-version = neuron.version;
   };
 
+  kallisto = callPackage ../applications/science/biology/kallisto { };
+
   neuron = callPackage ../applications/science/biology/neuron {
     python = null;
   };