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@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ params.freyja = true                      # multiple SARS-CoV-2 lineage determin
 params.vadr = false                       # NCBI fasta QC
 params.relatedness = false                # create multiple sequence alignments with input fastq and fasta files
 params.snpdists = true                    # creates snp matrix from mafft multiple sequence alignment
-params.iqtree = true                      # creates phylogenetic tree from mafft multiple sequence alignement
+params.iqtree = true                      # creates phylogenetic tree from mafft multiple sequence alignment
 params.bamsnap = false                    # has been removed
 params.rename = false                     # needs a corresponding sample file and will rename files for GISAID and NCBI submission
 params.filter = false                     # takes the aligned reads and turns them back into fastq.gz files