diff --git a/recipes/pbcore/build.sh b/recipes/pbcore/build.sh
index 8e25a1455f914..e45c73d5420b0 100644
--- a/recipes/pbcore/build.sh
+++ b/recipes/pbcore/build.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-$PYTHON setup.py install
+$PYTHON setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --record=record.txt
diff --git a/recipes/pbcore/meta.yaml b/recipes/pbcore/meta.yaml
index 7e24360144a45..6d0f31d693437 100644
--- a/recipes/pbcore/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/pbcore/meta.yaml
@@ -1,17 +1,28 @@
 {% set name = "pbcore" %}
-{% set version = "1.2.10" %}
+{% set version = "1.5.1" %}
+{% set sha256 = "716a428088cf4215ff6f4e5ca05b499031cdd203cb22c712f3fd11ff3b31c170" %}
 
 package:
-  name: {{ name|lower }}
+  name: {{ name }}
   version: {{ version }}
 
 source:
-  url: https://pypi.python.org/packages/63/23/3c2dd8c5b957be17af9d00197fc157cd60952592c3b46e7b418029df9cca/pbcore-1.2.10.tar.gz
-  md5: e33bee180b9d91e90a3f0f022764742c
+  url: https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/{{ name }}/releases/download/{{ version }}/{{ name }}-{{ version }}.tar.gz
+  sha256: {{ sha256 }}
+
+about:
+  home: https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/pbcore
+  license: BSD
+  summary: A Python library for reading and writing PacBio data files
+
+extra:
+  recipe-maintainers:
+    - pb-dseifert
+    - mhsieh
 
 build:
   skip: True # [not py27]
-  number: 2
+  number: 0
 
 requirements:
   host:
@@ -19,15 +30,14 @@ requirements:
     - setuptools
     - cython
     - numpy >=1.7.1
-    - h5py >=2.0.1
-    - pysam >=0.9.0
-
+    - h5py >=2.7.0
+    - pysam >=0.13
   run:
     - python
     - cython
     - numpy >=1.7.1
-    - h5py >=2.0.1
-    - pysam >=0.9.0
+    - h5py >=2.7.0
+    - pysam >=0.13
 
 test:
   imports:
@@ -40,13 +50,7 @@ test:
     - pbcore.io.dataset
     - pbcore.model
     - pbcore.util
-
   requires:
     - nose
     - pyxb
     - sphinx
-
-about:
-  home: https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/pbcore
-  license: BSD-3-Clause
-  summary: 'A Python library for reading and writing PacBio data files'