diff --git a/polishTE b/polishTE
index af2219e..ab888b8 100755
--- a/polishTE
+++ b/polishTE
@@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ function get_blast_hit() {
 
     # run blastn
     echo "#qseqid sseqid pident length mismatch qstart qend sstart send sstrand" > $1.blast.o
-    blastn -query $2 -db $3 -outfmt "6 qseqid sseqid pident length mismatch qstart qend sstart send sstrand" -evalue $4 | awk -v "ml=$5" '{OFS="\t"; if ($4 > ml) {print $0}}' >> $1.blast.o
+    blastn -query $2 -db $3 -outfmt "6 qseqid sseqid pident length mismatch qstart qend sstart send sstrand" \
+        -evalue $4 | awk -v "ml=$5" '{OFS="\t"; if ($4 > ml) {print $0}}' >> $1.blast.o
     
     # filter blastn results
     awk -v cons_len="$8" '{OFS="\t"; if ($1~/^#/) {} else {if ($3 > 80 && $7-$6<3*cons_len) {print}}}' < $1.blast.o > $1.blast.tmp.o
diff --git a/utils/query_coverage.R b/utils/query_coverage.R
index 320df21..048228d 100644
--- a/utils/query_coverage.R
+++ b/utils/query_coverage.R
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ cons_len        =   as.numeric(Args[7])
 out_file        =   as.character(Args[8])
 
 cons_coverage=function(blast_file=NULL, cons_len=NULL, out_file=NULL){
-    blast = read.table(blast_file, sep="\t")
-    new_rownames <- c(paste(blast$V2,"-",as.character(blast$V8),":",as.character(blast$V9), sep = ""))
+    blast = read.table(blast_file, sep="\t", comment.char = "", skip=1)
+
+    new_rownames <- c(paste(blast$V2,"-",as.character(blast$V8),":",as.character(blast$V9), sep = ""))  
 
     #make the coverage matrix
     coverage = matrix(rep(0, length(blast$V1)*as.numeric(cons_len)), byrow = T, ncol = as.numeric(cons_len))
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ cons_coverage=function(blast_file=NULL, cons_len=NULL, out_file=NULL){
 
     # number of full copies
     full=blast[abs(blast$V6-blast$V7) >= 0.9*as.numeric(cons_len),]
+    
     cat(nrow(full))    
 }