diff --git a/.github/workflows/kavian-app.yml b/.github/workflows/kavian-app.yml
index 4fa6efd..6dc9b8e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/kavian-app.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/kavian-app.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install flake8 pytest
-        if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+        pip install .
     - name: Lint with flake8
       run: |
         # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 74215c3..0000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-include README.md
-include LICENSE
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..832f4f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+[project]
+name = "kavian"
+version = "0.2.0"
+description = "Python statistical modeling toolkit with built-in Pandas and Scikit-Learn integration"
+authors = [
+    { name = "Adam Torres Encarnacion", email = "art5809@psu.edu" },
+]
+license = { text = "MIT" }
+readme = "README.md"
+classifiers=[
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+]
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+dependencies = [
+    "numpy",
+    "pandas",
+    "scikit-learn",
+    "rich",
+    "pytest",
+    "statsmodels",
+    "scipy"
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+repository = "https://github.com/AdamPSU/Kavian"
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 18dfbdb..0000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-pandas~=2.2.2
-numpy~=2.0.0
-seaborn~=0.13.2
-matplotlib~=3.9.1
-kavian~=0.2.0
-pytest~=8.3.1
-scikit-learn~=1.5.1
-rich~=13.7.1
-setuptools~=70.3.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ede93a..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-
-setup(
-    name="kavian",
-    version="0.2.0",
-    author="Adam Torres Encarnacion",
-    author_email="art5809@psu.edu",
-    description="Python statistical modeling toolkit with built-in Pandas and Scikit-Learn integration",
-    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
-    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    url="https://github.com/AdamPSU/Kavian",
-    packages=find_packages(),
-    classifiers=[
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
-        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
-    ],
-    python_requires='>=3.9',
-    install_requires=[
-        'numpy', 'pandas', 'scikit-learn', 'rich', 'pytest', 'statsmodels', 'scipy'
-    ],
-)
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