diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 86199fb19bd8aaf42263e3fb16d0f5d44127c9df..b5032f2d753fa3563f02cccc193e21e7b771137e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dependencies = [
     'lxml>=5.2',
     'lxml-html-clean>=0.1.0',
     'matid>=2.1.0',
-    'mdanalysis==2.5.0',
+    'mdanalysis==2.7.0',
     'networkx>=2.6.3',
     'nptyping~=1.4.4',
     'numpy>=1.22.4,<2.0.0',
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index c6b6423587dde299034379ce97c06f0d57ad6d32..481e6c62324e5ededca319d22c79014949d67540 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ bagit==1.8.1              # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 basicauth==0.4.1          # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 beautifulsoup4==4.12.3    # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 billiard==4.2.0           # via celery, -r requirements.txt
-biopython==1.84           # via mdanalysis, -r requirements.txt
 bitarray==2.9.2           # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 blinker==1.8.2            # via flask, -r requirements.txt
 build==1.2.1              # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
@@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ gitdb==4.0.11             # via gitpython, -r requirements.txt
 gitpython==3.1.43         # via mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin, -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 greenlet==3.0.3 ; (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'AMD64') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'WIN32') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'aarch64') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'amd64') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'ppc64le') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'win32') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'x86_64')  # via sqlalchemy, -r requirements.txt
 griddataformats==1.0.2    # via mdanalysis, -r requirements.txt
-gsd==3.3.1                # via mdanalysis, -r requirements.txt
 gunicorn==21.2.0          # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 h11==0.14.0               # via httpcore, uvicorn, -r requirements.txt
 h5grove==1.3.0            # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
@@ -114,8 +112,8 @@ markdown==3.7             # via mkdocs, mkdocs-click, mkdocs-material, pymdown-e
 markupsafe==2.1.5         # via jinja2, mako, mkdocs, werkzeug, -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 matid==2.1.0              # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 matplotlib==3.9.2         # via ase, asr, mdanalysis, phonopy, pymatgen, -r requirements.txt
-mda-xdrlib==0.2.0         # via pyedr, -r requirements.txt
-mdanalysis==2.5.0         # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
+mda-xdrlib==0.2.0         # via mdanalysis, pyedr, -r requirements.txt
+mdanalysis==2.7.0         # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 mergedeep==1.3.4          # via mkdocs, mkdocs-get-deps
 mistune==3.0.2            # via m2r, -r requirements.txt
 mkdocs==1.6.0             # via mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin, mkdocs-macros-plugin, mkdocs-material, mkdocs-redirects, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
@@ -139,11 +137,11 @@ mypy==1.0.1               # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 mypy-extensions==1.0.0    # via mypy
 names==0.3.0              # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 netcdf4==1.6.5            # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
-networkx==3.3             # via matid, mdanalysis, pymatgen, -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
+networkx==3.3             # via matid, pymatgen, -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 nh3==0.2.18               # via readme-renderer
 nomad-openbis==1.0.0      # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 nptyping==1.4.4           # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
-numpy==1.26.4             # via ase, biopython, cftime, contourpy, griddataformats, gsd, h5grove, h5py, matid, matplotlib, mdanalysis, mrcfile, netcdf4, nptyping, pandas, phonopy, pyedr, pymatgen, rdkit, scikit-learn, scipy, spglib, tifffile, xarray, -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
+numpy==1.26.4             # via ase, cftime, contourpy, griddataformats, h5grove, h5py, matid, matplotlib, mdanalysis, mrcfile, netcdf4, nptyping, pandas, phonopy, pyedr, pymatgen, rdkit, scikit-learn, scipy, spglib, tifffile, xarray, -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 oauthenticator==15.1.0    # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 oauthlib==3.2.2           # via jupyterhub, -r requirements.txt
 openpyxl==3.1.5           # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
@@ -261,7 +259,7 @@ uncertainties==3.2.2      # via pymatgen, -r requirements.txt
 unidecode==1.3.2          # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 uri-template==1.3.0       # via jsonschema, -r requirements.txt
 urllib3==1.26.19          # via docker, elasticsearch, nomad-openbis, requests, -r requirements.txt
-uv==0.2.37                # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
+uv==0.3.0                 # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 uvicorn==0.30.6           # via h5grove, -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 uvloop==0.20.0 ; platform_python_implementation != 'PyPy' and sys_platform != 'cygwin' and sys_platform != 'win32'  # via uvicorn, -r requirements.txt
 validators==0.18.2        # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
@@ -271,7 +269,7 @@ watchfiles==0.23.0        # via uvicorn, -r requirements.txt
 wcwidth==0.2.13           # via prompt-toolkit, -r requirements.txt
 webcolors==24.8.0         # via jsonschema, -r requirements.txt
 webencodings==0.5.1       # via html5lib, -r requirements.txt
-websockets==12.0          # via uvicorn, -r requirements.txt
+websockets==13.0          # via uvicorn, -r requirements.txt
 werkzeug==3.0.3           # via flask, -r requirements.txt
 wrapt==1.16.0             # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 xarray==2024.7.0          # via -r requirements.txt, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6bb5c73d23d74114399fe7218fcf294f32a6a425..c960f435ae96ca8d341c58e1558c66d6e225314e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ bagit==1.8.1              # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 basicauth==0.4.1          # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 beautifulsoup4==4.12.3    # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 billiard==4.2.0           # via celery
-biopython==1.84           # via mdanalysis
 bitarray==2.9.2           # via nomad-dos-fingerprints (dependencies/nomad-dos-fingerprints/pyproject.toml), nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 blinker==1.8.2            # via flask
 cachetools==5.5.0         # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
@@ -58,7 +57,6 @@ gitdb==4.0.11             # via gitpython
 gitpython==3.1.43         # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 greenlet==3.0.3 ; (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'AMD64') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'WIN32') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'aarch64') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'amd64') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'ppc64le') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'win32') or (python_full_version < '3.13' and platform_machine == 'x86_64')  # via sqlalchemy
 griddataformats==1.0.2    # via mdanalysis
-gsd==3.3.1                # via mdanalysis
 gunicorn==21.2.0          # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 h11==0.14.0               # via httpcore, uvicorn
 h5grove==1.3.0            # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
@@ -95,8 +93,8 @@ mako==1.3.5               # via alembic
 markupsafe==2.1.5         # via jinja2, mako, werkzeug
 matid==2.1.0              # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 matplotlib==3.9.2         # via ase, asr, mdanalysis, phonopy, pymatgen
-mda-xdrlib==0.2.0         # via pyedr
-mdanalysis==2.5.0         # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
+mda-xdrlib==0.2.0         # via mdanalysis, pyedr
+mdanalysis==2.7.0         # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 mistune==3.0.2            # via m2r
 mmtf-python==1.1.3        # via mdanalysis
 mongoengine==0.28.2       # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
@@ -106,10 +104,10 @@ mpmath==1.3.0             # via sympy
 mrcfile==1.5.3            # via griddataformats
 msgpack==1.0.8            # via mmtf-python, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 netcdf4==1.6.5            # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
-networkx==3.3             # via matid, mdanalysis, pymatgen, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
+networkx==3.3             # via matid, pymatgen, nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 nomad-openbis==1.0.0      # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 nptyping==1.4.4           # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
-numpy==1.26.4             # via ase, biopython, cftime, contourpy, griddataformats, gsd, h5grove, h5py, matid, matplotlib, mdanalysis, mrcfile, netcdf4, nptyping, pandas, phonopy, pyedr, pymatgen, rdkit, scikit-learn, scipy, spglib, tifffile, xarray, nomad-dos-fingerprints (dependencies/nomad-dos-fingerprints/pyproject.toml), nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
+numpy==1.26.4             # via ase, cftime, contourpy, griddataformats, h5grove, h5py, matid, matplotlib, mdanalysis, mrcfile, netcdf4, nptyping, pandas, phonopy, pyedr, pymatgen, rdkit, scikit-learn, scipy, spglib, tifffile, xarray, nomad-dos-fingerprints (dependencies/nomad-dos-fingerprints/pyproject.toml), nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 oauthenticator==15.1.0    # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 oauthlib==3.2.2           # via jupyterhub
 openpyxl==3.1.5           # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
@@ -208,7 +206,7 @@ watchfiles==0.23.0        # via uvicorn
 wcwidth==0.2.13           # via prompt-toolkit
 webcolors==24.8.0         # via jsonschema
 webencodings==0.5.1       # via html5lib
-websockets==12.0          # via uvicorn
+websockets==13.0          # via uvicorn
 werkzeug==3.0.3           # via flask
 wrapt==1.16.0             # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)
 xarray==2024.7.0          # via nomad-lab (pyproject.toml)