diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 155279f82b41df9f3e30436c29c74f70191ce43f..479190f97f1a8c16a3319dceee47caf8be1a0178 100755
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,5 +7,3 @@ assembly/resources/bakta_db
 facienda.md
 variantcalling/container/pggb_latest.sif
 variantcalling/.snakemake
-assembly/logs
-assembly/.fontconfig
diff --git a/assembly/README.md b/assembly/README.md
index 177b319bc29cad12ba7db7fdd5089842a3f0986d..8c339e5721c86fa4741a2b0c236bea8d961d7190 100755
--- a/assembly/README.md
+++ b/assembly/README.md
@@ -13,18 +13,14 @@ The user needs to provide two things to run the workflow on her samples:
 - a config file with some global options for the analysis
 - a tab separate table, without header, that contains the sample names and the corresponding paths to the HiFi consensus reads. 
 
-
-## Clone the directory
-
-
 ## Create conda environment containing snakemake and singularity
 ```
-conda env create -f config/environment.yml
+conda env create -f environment.yml
 
 ```
 
 
-## Run the pipeline
+## config.yml
 In the file config/config.yaml some global parameters can be set:
 
 ```yaml
diff --git a/assembly/cluster/config.yaml b/assembly/config/cluster_config.yaml
similarity index 86%
rename from assembly/cluster/config.yaml
rename to assembly/config/cluster_config.yaml
index 9deb95e863bcd5a6811ba91847f13cd99097dabe..a8eb21698259a77bfd2a075f95285bb9c955f5ad 100644
--- a/assembly/cluster/config.yaml
+++ b/assembly/config/cluster_config.yaml
@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ cluster:
     --output=logs/{rule}/{rule}-{wildcards}-%j.stdout
     --error=logs/{rule}/{rule}-{wildcards}-%j.stderr
 default-resources:
-  - "partition=scicore"
-  - "qos='1day'"
-  - "time='12:00:00'"
-  - "mem_mb=20000"
+  - partition=scicore
+  - qos=1day
+  - time=12:00:00
+  - mem_mb=20000
 restart-times: 3
 max-jobs-per-second: 10
 max-status-checks-per-second: 1
 local-cores: 1
 latency-wait: 60
-jobs: 10
+jobs: 500
 keep-going: True
 rerun-incomplete: True
 printshellcmds: True
diff --git a/assembly/config/config.yaml b/assembly/config/config.yaml
index ee2e9b6623ce042b85cf734465653384738b886a..eb11d3bea3047d9be05641541f294eb53ad152b0 100755
--- a/assembly/config/config.yaml
+++ b/assembly/config/config.yaml
@@ -2,17 +2,15 @@
 #
 ##############################
 
-samples: "config/samples.tsv"
-outdir: "./results"
+samples: config/samples.tsv
+outdir: ./results
 
 ref:
-  genome_size: "4.4m"
-  gbf: "resources/H37Rv.gbf"
+  genome_size: 4.4m
+  gbf: resources/H37Rv.gbf
 
-bakta_db: "/scicore/home/gagneux/GROUP/PacbioSnake_resources/databases/bakta_db"
-container: "/scicore/home/gagneux/GROUP/PacbioSnake_resources/containers/assemblySC.sif"
-
-annotate: "No"
+bakta_db: /scicore/home/gagneux/GROUP/PacbioSnake_resources/databases/bakta_db
+container: /scicore/home/gagneux/GROUP/PacbioSnake_resources/containers/assemblySC.sif
 
 threads_per_job: 4
 
diff --git a/assembly/config/environment.yml b/assembly/config/environment.yml
index 1946e195954f0eb9e6493dfdc05d9f64059563eb..f5e4dfb68a298668efd08fbd932411e9cf7f2d77 100644
--- a/assembly/config/environment.yml
+++ b/assembly/config/environment.yml
@@ -7,4 +7,3 @@ channels:
 dependencies:
   - snakemake=7.32.4
   - singularity=3.8.6
-  - biopython
diff --git a/assembly/run_assembly_pipeline.py b/assembly/run_assembly_pipeline.py
index 490b900ad352bcf6504fdb32d25e6665f0cc24c9..388c61689988a8ac2eeeb7f139005c6a9f74435e 100755
--- a/assembly/run_assembly_pipeline.py
+++ b/assembly/run_assembly_pipeline.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import argparse
 import os
+import yaml
 import sys
 
 def get_args():
@@ -11,17 +12,15 @@ def get_args():
     # Parameter groups
     parser_io = parser.add_argument_group('INPUT/OUTPUT')
 
-    parser_cluster = parser.add_argument_group('CLUSTER CONFIGURATION (not implemented yet)')
+    parser_cluster = parser.add_argument_group('CLUSTER CONFIGURATION')
 
     # INPUT/OUTPUT
-    parser_io.add_argument('-s', '--samples', required=True, help='Absolute path to tab-separated table, no header, with sample name and path to fastq with HiFi reads.')
+    parser_io.add_argument('-s', '--samples', required=True, help='Path to tab-separeted table, no header, with sample name and path to fastq with HiFi reads.')
     
-    parser_io.add_argument('-o', '--outdir', required=True, help='Absolute path to output directory.')
+    parser_io.add_argument('-o', '--outdir', required=True, help='Output directory for the results.')
 
-    parser_io.add_argument('-n', '--dry_run', action='store_true', help='Do snakemake dry run.')
 
-
-    # CLUSTER CONFIG (not implemented, would have to temper with the cluster config file)
+    # CLUSTER CONFIG
     parser_cluster.add_argument('-j', '--njobs', default='4', help='Number of jobs to run in parallel. [4]')
 
     parser_cluster.add_argument('-t', '--threads', default='10', help='Threads per job. [10]' )
@@ -37,7 +36,8 @@ def main():
    
     # Infer pipeline location from path of run_assembly_pipeline.py
     pl_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]))
-    
+    print(pl_path)
+
     # Directories for which singularity needs to be given access
     bind_dirs = [
         "/scicore/home/gagneux/GROUP/tbresearch/genomes/IN_PROGRESS/PacBio_genomes/Gagneux",
@@ -47,43 +47,24 @@ def main():
         pl_path
         ]
     
-    # Infer folders with samples, to add them to bind_dirs
-    sample_dirs = set()
-    with open(args.samples) as f:
-        for line in f:
-            fields = line.strip().split()
-            fastq_path = fields[1]
-            fastq_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(fastq_path))
-            sample_dirs.add(fastq_dir)
-
-    bind_dirs = bind_dirs + list(sample_dirs)
-
     singularity_args = "--bind " + " --bind ".join(bind_dirs)
 
-    if args.dry_run:
-
-        cmd = [
-            "snakemake -n",
-            "--snakefile", pl_path + "/workflow/Snakefile",
-            "--directory", pl_path,
-            "--configfile", pl_path + "/config/config.yaml",
-            "--config", "samples=\"" + args.samples + "\"" + " outdir=\"" + args.outdir + "\""
-        ]
-
-    else:
-        cmd = [
-            "snakemake",
-            "--snakefile", pl_path + "/workflow/Snakefile",
-            "--directory", pl_path,
-            "--configfile", pl_path + "/config/config.yaml",
-            "--profile", pl_path + "/cluster", 
-            "--use-singularity", 
-            "--singularity-args" + " \"" + singularity_args + "\"",
-            # Overwrite samples and outdir parameters in configfile
-            "--config", "samples=\"" + args.samples + "\"" + " outdir=\"" + args.outdir + "\""
-        ]
-
-    print("\n" + " ".join(cmd) + "\n")
+    cmd = [
+        "snakemake",
+        "--snakefile", pl_path + "/workflow/Snakefile",
+        "--directory", pl_path,
+        "--configfile", pl_path + "/config/config.yaml",
+        "--profile", pl_path + "/config/cluster_config.yaml", 
+        # Overwrite samples and outdir parameters
+        "--config", "samples=" + args.samples,
+        "--config", "outdir=" + args.outdir,
+        "--jobs", args.njobs,
+        "--cleanup-shadow",
+        "--use-singularity", 
+        "--singularity-args" + " \"" + singularity_args + "\""        
+    ]
+
+    #print(" ".join(cmd))
     os.system(" ".join(cmd))
     
 if __name__ == '__main__':