diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fbac8a9..c254284 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
     name='spectrae',
     version='0.1.0',    
     description='SPECTRA: The spectral framework for model evaluation',
+    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     url='https://github.com/mims-harvard/SPECTRA/',
     author='Yasha Ektefaie',
     author_email='yasha_ektefaie@g.harvard.edu',