diff --git a/tools/express/express_wrapper.xml b/tools/express/express_wrapper.xml
index bee4f965..8263b263 100644
--- a/tools/express/express_wrapper.xml
+++ b/tools/express/express_wrapper.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-<tool id="express" name="eXpress" version="1.1.1">
+<tool id="express" name="eXpress" version="1.5.1">
 	<description>Quantify the abundances of a set of target sequences from sampled subsequences</description>
 	<requirements>
-		<requirement type="package" version="1.1.1">eXpress</requirement>
+		<requirement type="package" version="1.5.1">eXpress</requirement>
 	</requirements>
 	<command>
 		express --no-update-check
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 	</command>
 	<inputs>
 		<param format="fasta" name="multiFasta" type="data" label="A set of target references (annotation) in multi-FASTA format" help="The multi-FASTA file can also be a fasta file." />
-		<param format="sam,bam" name="bamOrSamFile" type="data" label="Alignments in the BAM or SAM format" help="The set of aligned reads." />
+		<param format="sam,unsorted.bam,qname_sorted.bam" name="bamOrSamFile" type="data" label="Alignments in the BAM or SAM format" help="The set of aligned reads." />
 		<conditional name="additional_params">
             <param name="use_additional" type="select" label="Use Additional Parameters?">
                 <option value="no">No</option>
diff --git a/tools/express/tool_dependencies.xml b/tools/express/tool_dependencies.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d6a67e1..00000000
--- a/tools/express/tool_dependencies.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<tool_dependency>
-  <package name="eXpress" version="1.1.1">
-      <repository name="package_express_1_1_1" owner="devteam" prior_installation_required="False" />
-    </package>
-</tool_dependency>