diff --git a/src/.docker_modules/samtools/1.11/Dockerfile b/src/.docker_modules/samtools/1.11/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..054c3e6e421ee3056d43556d6435a23775934ba3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/.docker_modules/samtools/1.11/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+FROM alpine:3.8
+MAINTAINER Laurent Modolo
+
+ENV SAMTOOLS_VERSION=1.11
+ENV PACKAGES git \
+             make \
+             gcc \
+             musl-dev \
+             zlib-dev \
+             ncurses-dev \
+             bzip2-dev \
+             xz-dev \
+             curl-dev \
+             bash
+
+RUN apk update && \
+    apk add ${PACKAGES}
+
+RUN git clone https://github.com/samtools/htslib.git && \
+cd htslib && \
+git checkout ${SAMTOOLS_VERSION}  && \
+cd .. && \
+git clone https://github.com/samtools/samtools.git && \
+cd samtools && \
+git checkout ${SAMTOOLS_VERSION} && \
+make && \
+cp samtools /usr/bin/
diff --git a/src/.docker_modules/samtools/1.11/docker_init.sh b/src/.docker_modules/samtools/1.11/docker_init.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5cf9c2896e0679b9124bdb4e38f852184f993f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/.docker_modules/samtools/1.11/docker_init.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+docker pull lbmc/samtools:1.11
+docker build src/.docker_modules/samtools/1.11 -t 'lbmc/samtools:1.11'
+docker push lbmc/samtools:1.11
diff --git a/src/nf_modules/samtools/main.nf b/src/nf_modules/samtools/main.nf
index 3b0c8f34f0662a127275eeb923f41098f7bf8bbd..1f5cc1b6bcb6e693f9b92cae3085921c0baebc19 100644
--- a/src/nf_modules/samtools/main.nf
+++ b/src/nf_modules/samtools/main.nf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version = "1.7"
+version = "1.11"
 container_url = "lbmc/samtools:${version}"
 
 process filter_bam {