diff --git a/dnaplotter b/dnaplotter
index 06dea21b1720f0771a8c65eb6fcc696357da78fa..e64dd17d6ae41df11ce88b4b91d9600556c35664 100755
--- a/dnaplotter
+++ b/dnaplotter
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/j2ssh/commons-logging.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/l
 CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/ibatis/ibatis-2.3.4.726.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/ibatis/:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/ibatis/log4j-1.2.14.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/ibatis/cglib-nodep-2.2.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/retrotranslator-runtime-1.1.0.jar
 export CLASSPATH
 
+# picard jars
+CLASSPATH=$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/picard/sam.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/picard/picard.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/commons-net-2.2.jar:$CLASSPATH
+export CLASSPATH
+
 
 ARTEMIS_PROPERTIES="-Dartemis.environment=UNIX"