diff --git a/tsg/main.py b/tsg/main.py
index f50eb8059ce30e7857a211bb842d3edb5cf0c3fc..e7bd9dbc9b9b4880f632b0146a1827a47d3b3c32 100644
--- a/tsg/main.py
+++ b/tsg/main.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 def read_abundances(transcripts_file: str) -> pd.DataFrame:
-    """Read file of abundance of transcripts into dataframe.
+    """Read transcript-abundance file into dataframe.
 
     Args:
         transcripts_file (str): Input filename
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def read_abundances(transcripts_file: str) -> pd.DataFrame:
 
 
 def filter_df(df: pd.DataFrame, transcripts: list = []) -> pd.DataFrame:
-    """Filter annotations to include only exons with the highest transcript support level, i.e. (TSL1).
+    """Filter annotations to include only exons with the highest transcript support level, i.e. TSL1.
 
     `feature` column is filtered on value "exon" and
     `free_text` column is filtered to include the string denoting the highest transcript support level