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 ### Prepate Target Genomes (prepTG)
 
-**prepTG** processes and performs gene-calling or gene-mapping on an input set of genomes to ease and optimize downstream searches using fai.
+**`prepTG`** processes and performs gene-calling or gene-mapping on an input set of genomes to ease and optimize downstream searches using fai.
 
 ### Find Additional Instances (fai)