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@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Execute the workflow locally via
 
 using $N cores or run it in a cluster environment via
 
-`snakemake --use-singularity --singularity-args "-B '/home/login/'" --cluster-config config/cluster_config.json --cluster "sbatch --mem={cluster.ram} --cpus-per-task={threads} " -j 200 --nolock`
+`snakemake --use-singularity --singularity-args "-B '$HOME'" --cluster-config config/cluster_config.json --cluster "sbatch --mem={cluster.ram} --cpus-per-task={threads} " -j 200 --nolock --cores $SLURM_JOB_CPUS_PER_NODE`
 
 
 Visualize how the rules are connected via