diff --git a/workflow/scripts/convert_reads.py b/workflow/scripts/convert_reads.py
index 8c090aee9774f9925118b8a062a799e73dfc8c5a..8d896b7c4582edcfb7f8de349097004d039e04b0 100644
--- a/workflow/scripts/convert_reads.py
+++ b/workflow/scripts/convert_reads.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def get_args():
         formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
 
     parser.add_argument('-b', '--bam',
-                        help="The bam file to run filtering and qc on.",
+                        help="The bam file to convert.",
                         required=True)
 
     parser.add_argument('-p', '--paired',