diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ccd6f09..30cb147 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -28,13 +28,11 @@ RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
 Imports:
     BiocParallel,
     bluster (>= 1.14),
-    DelayedMatrixStats,
     dplyr,
     methods,
     pdfCluster,
     purrr,
     SingleCellExperiment,
-    sparseMatrixStats,
     tibble,
     tidyr
 biocViews: