diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7bfb9d3..344d7af 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ## RENEE development version
+
 - Fix: RNA report bug, caused by hard-coding of PC1-3, when only PC1-2 were generated (#104, @slsevilla)
 - Minor documentation improvements. (#100, @kelly-sovacool)
+- Fix: allow printing the version or help message even if singularity is not in the path. (#110, @kelly-sovacool)
 
 ## RENEE 2.5.11
 
diff --git a/bin/redirect b/bin/redirect
index 37ef05f..8f74330 100755
--- a/bin/redirect
+++ b/bin/redirect
@@ -67,13 +67,4 @@ elif [[ $ISFRCE == true ]];then
 	export PATH="/mnt/projects/CCBR-Pipelines/bin:$PATH"
 fi
 
-# check if singularity, snakemake are in PATH
-for tool in singularity snakemake;do
-	x=$(type -P $tool)
-	if [[ -z $x ]]; then # is $x blank
-		echo "$tool is not it path! Exiting."
-		exit
-	fi
-done
-
 ${TOOLDIR}/${TOOLNAME} "$@" || true