diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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index 0000000..1ff4d63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=69.1", "wheel", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "pubmed_parser"
+description = "A python parser for Pubmed Open-Access Subset and MEDLINE XML repository"
+readme = "README.md"
+license = {text = "MIT (c) 2015 - 2024 Titipat Achakulvisut, Daniel E. Acuna"}
+authors = [
+    {name = "Titipat Achakulvisut", email = "my.titipat@gmail.com"}
+]
+maintainers = [
+    {name = "Titipat Achakulvisut", email = "my.titipat@gmail.com"},
+    {name = "Michael E. Rose", email = "Michael.Ernst.Rose@gmail.com"}
+]
+classifiers = [
+    "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+    "Programming Language :: Python",
+    "Natural Language :: English",
+    "Topic :: Software Development",
+    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Information Analysis",
+    "Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows",
+    "Operating System :: Unix",
+    "Operating System :: MacOS",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11"
+]
+keywords = [
+    "Python",
+    "MEDLINE",
+    "PubMed",
+    "Biomedical corpus",
+    "Natural Language Processing"
+]
+dependencies = [
+    "lxml",
+    "unidecode",
+    "requests",
+    "six",
+    "numpy"
+]
+dynamic = ["version"]
+
+[project.urls]
+homepage = "https://github.com/titipata/pubmed_parser"
+download = "https://github.com/titipata/pubmed_parser.git"
+documentation = "http://titipata.github.io/pubmed_parser"
+bug_tracker = "https://github.com/titipata/pubmed_parser/issues"
+
+[tool.setuptools.package-data]
+"pubmed_parser.data" = ["*.xml.gz", "*.nxml", "*.txt"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["pubmed_parser"]
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-lxml
-unidecode
-requests
-six
-numpy
-pytest
-pytest-cov
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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--- a/setup.py
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-#! /usr/bin/env python
-from setuptools import setup
-
-with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
-    long_description = fh.read()
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    setup(
-        name="pubmed_parser",
-        version="0.4.0",
-        description="A python parser for Pubmed Open-Access Subset and MEDLINE XML repository",
-        long_description=long_description,
-        long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
-        url="https://github.com/titipata/pubmed_parser",
-        download_url="https://github.com/titipata/pubmed_parser.git",
-        author="Titipat Achakulvisut",
-        author_email="my.titipat@gmail.com",
-        license="MIT (c) 2015 - 2019 Titipat Achakulvisut, Daniel E. Acuna",
-        install_requires=[
-            "lxml",
-            "unidecode",
-            "requests",
-            "six",
-            "numpy",
-            "pytest",
-            "pytest-cov",
-        ],
-        packages=["pubmed_parser"],
-        package_data={"pubmed_parser.data": ["*.xml.gz", "*.nxml", "*.txt"],},
-        keywords=[
-            'Python',
-            'MEDLINE',
-            'PubMed',
-            'Biomedical corpus',
-            'Natural Language Processing'
-        ],
-        classifiers=[
-            "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
-            "Intended Audience :: Developers",
-            "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
-            "Programming Language :: Python",
-            "Topic :: Software Development",
-            "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering",
-            "Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows",
-            "Operating System :: Unix",
-            "Operating System :: MacOS",
-            "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-            "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5",
-            "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
-            "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
-            "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
-        ],
-        platforms="any",
-        project_urls={
-            "Source": "https://github.com/titipata/pubmed_parser",
-            "Documentation": "http://titipata.github.io/pubmed_parser",
-            "Bug Reports": "https://github.com/titipata/pubmed_parser/issues",
-        },
-    )