diff --git a/Formula/newick-utils.rb b/Formula/newick-utils.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 6bc8954136..0000000000
--- a/Formula/newick-utils.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-require 'formula'
-
-class NewickUtils < Formula
-  homepage 'http://cegg.unige.ch/newick_utils'
-  url 'http://cegg.unige.ch/pub/newick-utils-1.6.tar.gz'
-  sha1 'a9779054dcbf957618458ebfed07991fabeb3e19'
-
-  # don't bother testing nw_gen, it's known to fail on MacOSX
-  patch :DATA
-
-  def install
-    system "./configure", "--disable-dependency-tracking",
-                          "--prefix=#{prefix}"
-    system "make"
-    system "make check"
-    system "make install"
-  end
-
-  test do
-    expected = <<-EOS
- +-------------------------------------+ B
-=| A
- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ C
-
- |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
- 0                0.5                  1                1.5                  2
- substitutions/site
-EOS
-
-    output = pipe_output("#{bin}/nw_display -", "(B:1,C:2)A;\n")
-    assert_equal expected, output.split("\n").map(&:rstrip).join("\n")
-  end
-end
-
-__END__
---- a/tests/test_nw_gen.sh
-+++ b/tests/test_nw_gen.sh
-@@ -138,0 +139,2 @@
-+pass=TRUE
-+