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   --min-aln-len-ratio MIN_ALN_LEN_RATIO
                         Minimum ratio of alignment length to marker gene length [default: 0.75]
   --min-fidelity MIN_FIDELITY
-                        Minimum acceptable log(P)/aln_length [deafult: log(0.5)]
+                        Minimum acceptable log(P)/aln_length [deafult: 0.5]
   --ref-weight REF_WEIGHT
                         Scale factor for log(P) dependent on alignment length: log(P) <- log(P) + REF_WEIGHT * log(aln_length_ratio) [default: 1.0]
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 ## References
 
-Sapoval, Nicolae, Yunxi Liu, Kristen D. Curry, Bryce Kille, Wenyu Huang, Natalie Kokroko, Michael G. Nute et al. "Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomic datasets with Lemur and Magnet." *bioRxiv* (2024). [DOI:[10.1101/2024.06.01.596961](https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.01.596961)]
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+Sapoval, Nicolae, Yunxi Liu, Kristen D. Curry, Bryce Kille, Wenyu Huang, Natalie Kokroko, Michael G. Nute et al. "Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomic datasets with Lemur and Magnet." *bioRxiv* (2024). [DOI:[10.1101/2024.06.01.596961](https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.01.596961)]