diff --git a/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastn_wrapper.xml b/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastn_wrapper.xml
index dbefac05d6e..6b942380403 100644
--- a/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastn_wrapper.xml
+++ b/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastn_wrapper.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <tool id="ncbi_blastn_wrapper" name="NCBI BLAST+ blastn" version="0.0.11">
     <description>Search nucleotide database with nucleotide query sequence(s)</description>
-    <!-- If job splitting is enabled, break up the query file into batches of 500 sequences -->
+    <!-- If job splitting is enabled, break up the query file into four -->
     <parallelism method="multi" split_inputs="query" split_mode="number_of_parts" split_size="4" shared_inputs="subject" merge_outputs="output1"></parallelism>
     <version_command>blastn -version</version_command>
     <command interpreter="python">hide_stderr.py
diff --git a/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastp_wrapper.xml b/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastp_wrapper.xml
index 0f7d0a7c8ee..17dda06e5e1 100644
--- a/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastp_wrapper.xml
+++ b/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastp_wrapper.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <tool id="ncbi_blastp_wrapper" name="NCBI BLAST+ blastp" version="0.0.11">
     <description>Search protein database with protein query sequence(s)</description>
-    <!-- If job splitting is enabled, break up the query file into batches of 500 sequences -->
+    <!-- If job splitting is enabled, break up the query file into four -->
     <parallelism method="multi" split_inputs="query" split_mode="number_of_parts" split_size="4" shared_inputs="subject" merge_outputs="output1"></parallelism>
     <version_command>blastp -version</version_command>
     <command interpreter="python">hide_stderr.py
diff --git a/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastx_wrapper.xml b/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastx_wrapper.xml
index cda16a5f34f..487c433ee1b 100644
--- a/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastx_wrapper.xml
+++ b/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_blastx_wrapper.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <tool id="ncbi_blastx_wrapper" name="NCBI BLAST+ blastx" version="0.0.11">
     <description>Search protein database with translated nucleotide query sequence(s)</description>
-    <!-- If job splitting is enabled, break up the query file into batches of 500 sequences -->
+    <!-- If job splitting is enabled, break up the query file into four -->
     <parallelism method="multi" split_inputs="query" split_mode="number_of_parts" split_size="4" shared_inputs="subject" merge_outputs="output1"></parallelism>
     <version_command>blastx -version</version_command>
     <command interpreter="python">hide_stderr.py
diff --git a/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_tblastn_wrapper.xml b/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_tblastn_wrapper.xml
index 2d6ece29b92..73cead395d8 100644
--- a/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_tblastn_wrapper.xml
+++ b/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_tblastn_wrapper.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <tool id="ncbi_tblastn_wrapper" name="NCBI BLAST+ tblastn" version="0.0.11">
     <description>Search translated nucleotide database with protein query sequence(s)</description>
-    <!-- If job splitting is enabled, break up the query file into batches of 500 sequences -->
+    <!-- If job splitting is enabled, break up the query file into four -->
     <parallelism method="multi" split_inputs="query" split_mode="number_of_parts" split_size="4" shared_inputs="subject" merge_outputs="output1"></parallelism>
     <version_command>tblastn -version</version_command>
     <command interpreter="python">hide_stderr.py
diff --git a/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_tblastx_wrapper.xml b/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_tblastx_wrapper.xml
index e65ed289bd4..bb96f972a9c 100644
--- a/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_tblastx_wrapper.xml
+++ b/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/ncbi_tblastx_wrapper.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <tool id="ncbi_tblastx_wrapper" name="NCBI BLAST+ tblastx" version="0.0.11">
     <description>Search translated nucleotide database with translated nucleotide query sequence(s)</description>
-    <!-- If job splitting is enabled, break up the query file into batches of 500 sequences -->
+    <!-- If job splitting is enabled, break up the query file into four -->
     <parallelism method="multi" split_inputs="query" split_mode="number_of_parts" split_size="4" shared_inputs="subject" merge_outputs="output1"></parallelism>
     <version_command>tblastx -version</version_command>
     <command interpreter="python">hide_stderr.py