diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/r-lang/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/r-lang/default.nix
index 1c86ed6c5741..8cf7cce28806 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/r-lang/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/r-lang/default.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   };
 
   buildInputs = [readline perl gfortran libpng libX11 libXt zlib];
+  configureFlags = ["--enable-R-shlib"] ;
 
 	meta = {
 		description = "R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics";
@@ -16,3 +17,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     homepage    = http://www.r-project.org/;
   };
 }
+
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/biology/biolib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/biology/biolib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cb18a8509bf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/biology/biolib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+args: with args;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "biolib";
+  version = "0.0.1";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://bio3.xparrot.eu/download/nix-biology/biolib-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1la639rs0v4f3ayvarqv0yxwlnwn188bb1v71d2ybw1xr6gdy688";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [cmake rLang zlib];
+
+  meta = {
+    description     = "BioLib";
+    longDescription = ''BioLib brings together a set of opensource libraries
+written in C/C++ and makes them available for major Bio* languages: BioPerl,
+BioRuby, BioPython'';
+    license     = "GPL2";
+    homepage    = http://biolib.open-bio.org/; 
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3df30dd06bdf..f38c475b083a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7200,6 +7200,11 @@ let pkgs = rec {
     inherit libxml2 guile perl intltool libtool pkgconfig;
   } null;
 
+
+  biolib = import ../development/libraries/science/biology/biolib {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv readline perl cmake rLang zlib;
+  };
+
   emboss = import ../applications/science/biology/emboss {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv readline perl libpng zlib;
     inherit (xorg) libX11 libXt;