diff --git a/configuration/samplesTest.tsv b/configuration/samplesTest.tsv
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-assemblyName    Library_R1                                              Library_R2     						assembly_fasta					est_bp
-SpeciesX	/<PathTo>/GEP/testData/SpeciesX_R1.fastq.gz 		/<PathTo>/GEP/testData/SpeciesX_R2.fastq.gz		/<PathTo>/GEP/testData/SpeciesX_assembly.fasta
-SpeciesY	/<PathTo>/GEP/testData/SpeciesY_library1_R1.fastq.gz	/<PathTo>/GEP/testData/SpeciesY_library1_R2.fastq.gz	/<PathTo>/GEP/testData/SpeciesY_assembly.fasta
-SpeciesY	/<PathTo>/GEP/testData/SpeciesY_library2_R1.fastq.gz 	/<PathTo>/GEP/testData/SpeciesY_library2_R2.fastq.gz	/<PathTo>/GEP/testData/SpeciesY_assembly.fasta
diff --git a/configuration/samplesTest_preBuiltk-merDB.tsv b/configuration/samplesTest_preBuiltk-merDB.tsv
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-assemblyName   		preBuiltMerylDatabase								assembly_fasta										est_bp
-ilVanAtal1_c1		/scratch/james94/teaching/masters_genome_eval/van_ata.21.meryl/			/scratch/james94/teaching/masters_genome_eval/purged.fa
-ilVanAtal1_p1		/scratch/james94/teaching/masters_genome_eval/van_ata.21.meryl/			/scratch/james94/teaching/masters_genome_eval/ilVanAtal1.hifiasm.asm.bp.p_ctg.fa