diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index eaa8b03..fdbb3c4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Each step of the installation process is expected to take a matter of seconds.
 
 | Command	| Default	| Description	|
 | :-------  | :----- | :-------- | 
-|--type	| map-ont	| denote sequencer [short-read:sr, Pac-Bio:map-pb, ONT:map-ont]	|
+|--type	| map-ont	| denote sequencer [short-read:sr, Pac-Bio:map-pb, ONT:map-ont, Nanopore Q20:lr:hq, PacBio HiFi:map-hifi, traditional cDNA:splice:hq]	|
 |--min-abundance| 0.0001| generates results with species relative abundance above this value in addition to full results; .01 = 1%|
 |--db| $EMU_DATABASE_DIR| path to emu database; directory must include the following files: names_df.tsv, nodes_df.tsv, species_taxid.fasta, unqiue_taxids.tsv|
 |--N| 50| max number of alignments utilized for each read in minimap2|
diff --git a/emu b/emu
index e60b751..4df92c5 100755
--- a/emu
+++ b/emu
@@ -697,8 +697,8 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         'input_file', type=str, nargs='+',
         help='filepath to input nt sequence file')
     abundance_parser.add_argument(
-        '--type', '-x', choices=['map-ont', 'map-pb', 'sr'], default='map-ont',
-        help='short-read: sr, Pac-Bio:map-pb, ONT:map-ont [map-ont]')
+        '--type', '-x', choices=['map-ont', 'map-pb', 'sr', 'lr:hq', 'map-hifi', 'splice:hq'], default='map-ont',
+        help='short-read: sr, Pac-Bio:map-pb, ONT:map-ont, ... [map-ont]')
     abundance_parser.add_argument(
         '--min-abundance', '-a', type=float, default=0.0001,
         help='min species abundance in results [0.0001]')
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index aa5fe9f..3e7bdb6 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ dependencies:
   - numpy >=1.11
   - pandas >=1.1
   - flatten-dict
-  - minimap2 >=2.22
+  - minimap2 >=2.27