diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 575e971..80b8808 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: redbiom CI
-    
+
 on:
   pull_request:
   push:
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ jobs:
         # based roughly on https://github.com/conda-incubator/setup-miniconda#example-1-basic-usage
         # via biocore/empress
         python-version: ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9"]
- 
+
     steps:
     - name: Check out repository code
       uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      
+
     - name: Setup for conda
       uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v2
       with:
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         conda create --yes -n test-env python=${{ matrix.python-version }} requests pandas click redis h5py nose
         conda activate test-env
-        conda install -c conda-forge --yes scikit-bio
-        pip install flake8 nltk biom-format msgpack
-        pip install -e . --no-deps 
+        conda install -c conda-forge --yes scikit-bio biom-format
+        pip install flake8 nltk msgpack
+        pip install -e . --no-deps
 
     - name: Webdis install
       shell: bash -l {0}
@@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ jobs:
       shell: bash -l {0}
       run: |
         conda activate test-env
-        
+
         redis-server --daemonize yes
-        
+
         pwd
         pushd webdis
         ./webdis &
         popd
-        
+
         alias md5=md5sum
         export REDBIOM_HOST=http://127.0.0.1:7379
         redbiom summarize contexts  # will return a nonzero exit status if it cannot communicate with the default host