diff --git a/rnacentral/portal/templates/portal/docs/sequence-search-help.md b/rnacentral/portal/templates/portal/docs/sequence-search-help.md
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--- a/rnacentral/portal/templates/portal/docs/sequence-search-help.md
+++ b/rnacentral/portal/templates/portal/docs/sequence-search-help.md
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ The search is powered by the [nhmmer](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/
 
 Where:
 
-* **--F3 0.02** is only used when the sequence length is less than 50 nucleotides
-* **-Z <number>** is calculated according to the size of the database
+* **--F3 0.02** is only used when the sequence length is less than 50 nucleotides.
+* **-Z <number>** is calculated according to the size of the database.
 
 A description of what each parameter does can be seen on the software [*man page*](http://eddylab.org/software/hmmer/Userguide.pdf) (manual page).