diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index c070b0b..807c35c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
           if [[ "${{ github.event_name }}" == "pull_request" && "${{ github.base_ref }}" == "dev" && "${{ matrix.NXF_VER }}" != "latest-everything" ]]; then
             echo matrix='["latest-everything"]' | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           else
-            echo matrix='["latest-everything", "23.04.0"]' | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo matrix='["latest-everything", "23.10.0"]' | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           fi
 
   test:
diff --git a/lib/WorkflowCreatetaxdb.groovy b/lib/WorkflowCreatetaxdb.groovy
index 988392e..5814e2a 100755
--- a/lib/WorkflowCreatetaxdb.groovy
+++ b/lib/WorkflowCreatetaxdb.groovy
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ class WorkflowCreatetaxdb {
         // Uncomment function in methodsDescriptionText to render in MultiQC report
         def citation_text = [
                 "Tools used in the workflow included:",
-                "FastQC (Andrews 2010),",
                 "MultiQC (Ewels et al. 2016)",
                 "."
             ].join(' ').trim()
@@ -72,7 +71,6 @@ class WorkflowCreatetaxdb {
         // Can use ternary operators to dynamically construct based conditions, e.g. params["run_xyz"] ? "<li>Author (2023) Pub name, Journal, DOI</li>" : "",
         // Uncomment function in methodsDescriptionText to render in MultiQC report
         def reference_text = [
-                "<li>Andrews S, (2010) FastQC, URL: https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/).</li>",
                 "<li>Ewels, P., Magnusson, M., Lundin, S., & Käller, M. (2016). MultiQC: summarize analysis results for multiple tools and samples in a single report. Bioinformatics , 32(19), 3047–3048. doi: /10.1093/bioinformatics/btw354</li>"
             ].join(' ').trim()