diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 159ee8e..a6971d4 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-FROM ubuntu:xenial
-MAINTAINER "Dan Leehr" dan.leehr@duke.edu
+FROM python:3.7
+LABEL maintainer="dan.leehr@duke.edu"
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
   git \
-  python3 python3-pip python-pip\
   r-base
 
 ### Step 1: Install the worker and its dependencies
@@ -14,29 +13,10 @@ RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 ADD . /opt/tf-predictions-worker/
 ENV PATH /opt/tf-predictions-worker/:$PATH
 
-### Step 2: Install LIBSVM, needed by predict-tf-binding
-# Makefile has no install target, so we compile and update PATH
-# Owned by root and placed in /opt
-
-ENV LIBSVM_VER 321
-RUN curl -SL https://github.com/cjlin1/libsvm/archive/v${LIBSVM_VER}.tar.gz | tar -xzC /opt # makes /opt/libsvm-321
-WORKDIR /opt/libsvm-${LIBSVM_VER}
-RUN make
-
-# Build shared lib for python bindings
-WORKDIR /opt/libsvm-${LIBSVM_VER}/python
-RUN make
-
-# Install libsvm and python bindings
-# These have no installer so we place the library and python bindings manually
-RUN cp /opt/libsvm-${LIBSVM_VER}/libsvm.so* /usr/lib/
-RUN ldconfig
-RUN cp /opt/libsvm-${LIBSVM_VER}/python/*.py /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
-
 ### Step 3: Install Predict-TF-Binding from GitHub
 WORKDIR /opt/
 RUN git clone https://github.com/Duke-GCB/Predict-TF-Binding.git predict-tf-binding
-RUN pip install -r /opt/predict-tf-binding/requirements.txt
+RUN pip3 install -r /opt/predict-tf-binding/requirements.txt
 ENV PATH /opt/predict-tf-binding/:$PATH
 
 ### Step 4: Install Predict-TF-Preference from GitHub