diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
index c41cdfbd86..08a7cbe118 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
@@ -4768,6 +4768,18 @@ data.  It also provides the @command{bgzip}, @command{htsfile}, and
     ;; the rest is released under the Expat license
     (license (list license:expat license:bsd-3))))
 
+(define-public htslib-1.14
+  (package/inherit htslib
+    (version "1.14")
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              (uri (string-append
+                    "https://github.com/samtools/htslib/releases/download/"
+                    version "/htslib-" version ".tar.bz2"))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "0pwk8yhhvb85mi1d2qhwsb4samc3rmbcrq7b1s0jz0glaa7in8pd"))))))
+
 (define-public htslib-1.12
   (package/inherit htslib
     (version "1.12")