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 2. Performs optional read pre-processing
    - Adapter clipping and merging (short-read: [fastp](https://github.com/OpenGene/fastp), [AdapterRemoval2](https://github.com/MikkelSchubert/adapterremoval); long-read: [porechop](https://github.com/rrwick/Porechop))
    - Low complexity and quality filtering (short-read: [bbduk](https://jgi.doe.gov/data-and-tools/software-tools/bbtools/), [PRINSEQ++](https://github.com/Adrian-Cantu/PRINSEQ-plus-plus); long-read: [Filtlong](https://github.com/rrwick/Filtlong))
-   - Host read removal ([BowTie2](http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/bowtie2/))
+   - Host read removal (short-read: [BowTie2](http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/bowtie2/); long-read: [Minimap2](https://github.com/lh3/minimap2))
    - Run merging
 3. Performs taxonomic profiling using one or more of:
    - [Kraken2](https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken2/)
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ nf-core/taxprofiler was originally written by nf-core community.
 
 We thank the following people for their extensive assistance in the development of this pipeline:
 
-[James A. Fellows Yates](https://github.com/jfy133), [Moritz Beber](https://github.com/Midnighter), [Lauri Mesilaakso](https://github.com/ljmesi), [Sofia Stamouli](https://github.com/sofsam), [Maxime Borry](https://github.com/maxibor).
+[James A. Fellows Yates](https://github.com/jfy133), [Moritz Beber](https://github.com/Midnighter), [Lauri Mesilaakso](https://github.com/ljmesi), [Sofia Stamouli](https://github.com/sofsam), [Maxime Borry](https://github.com/maxibor),[Thomas A. Christensen II](https://github.com/MillironX), [Jianhong Ou](https://github.com/jianhong), [Rafal Stepien](https://github.com/rafalstepien), [Mahwash Jamy](https://github.com/mjamy).
 
 ## Contributions and Support