diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 280f64deb03e042f639400a6bdef6fb617ab9339..ffb8738f7894816a4787fc1f901e5aff4dbea89a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ setup(
     version=version,
     packages=find_packages(),
     license="MIT",
-    description="a package to quantify registered brain data",
+    description="a package to quantify atlas registered brain data",
     long_description=long_description,
     url="https://github.com/Neural-Systems-at-UIO/PyNutil",
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",