diff --git a/docs/Software_installation.md b/docs/Software_installation.md
index 38f45515c01bdb4712512316822df879d135f083..ac856264e9eadc1fd4b33b6d13e5d469f70847b7 100644
--- a/docs/Software_installation.md
+++ b/docs/Software_installation.md
@@ -140,3 +140,13 @@ cd XlsxWriter
 /home/u035/project/software/bcbio/anaconda/bin/python3 setup.py install --prefix /home/u035/project/software
 rsync -av xlsxwriter ../../lib/python3.6/site-packages
 ```
+
+## GATK 3.8
+
+```
+cd /home/u035/project/software/install
+wget https://storage.googleapis.com/gatk-software/package-archive/gatk/GenomeAnalysisTK-3.8-0-ge9d806836.tar.bz2
+bzip2 -d GenomeAnalysisTK-3.8-0-ge9d806836.tar.bz2 
+tar -xf GenomeAnalysisTK-3.8-0-ge9d806836.tar
+mv GenomeAnalysisTK-3.8-0-ge9d806836 ../GenomeAnalysisTK-3.8
+```