diff --git a/pcore/pipeline.py b/pcore/pipeline.py
index 55e6574493edd09e325dfc707535ff5ed70e67e4..1fca4085d4f65e3764eaa9b05e92284b4b05f7bc 100644
--- a/pcore/pipeline.py
+++ b/pcore/pipeline.py
@@ -98,13 +98,6 @@ class Pipeline(ProcessABC):
     A chained set of Pipeline elements connected through pipes.
     """
 
-    ## default values
-    # General
-    tile_size = 96
-    distributed = 0
-    strain = ""
-    directory = "output"
-
     # Tiling, Segmentation,Extraction and Postprocessing should use their own default parameters
 
     # Early stop for clogging