diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 27b7d0b..71ea875 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Please add a new candidate release at the top after changing the latest one. Fee
 
 Try to use the following format:
 
+## [3.8.1]
+- Optional user defined threshold and penalty for compound scoring
+
 ## [3.8.0]
 - Rank score normalisation
 
diff --git a/genmod/commands/score_compounds.py b/genmod/commands/score_compounds.py
index 5765589..3a27f3c 100755
--- a/genmod/commands/score_compounds.py
+++ b/genmod/commands/score_compounds.py
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
                     is_flag=True,
                     help='If variants are annotated with the Variant Effect Predictor.'
 )
-@click.option('--threshold', type=int, help="If no other variants below this threshold, the variant is penalized", default=9)
-@click.option('--penalty', type=int, help="If not together with other variant above the threshold defined by --threshold, this penalty is applied", default=6)
+@click.option('--threshold', type=int, help="Threshold for model-dependent penalty if no compounds with passing score", default=9)
+@click.option('--penalty', type=int, help="Penalty applied together with --threshold", default=6)
 @click.pass_context
 def compound(context, variant_file, silent, outfile, vep, threshold: int, penalty: int, processes, temp_dir):
     """
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ def compound(context, variant_file, silent, outfile, vep, threshold: int, penalt
                                     vep = vep,
                                     results_queue=results
                                 )
-
+        
         logger.debug("Put stop signs in the variant queue")
         for i in range(num_scorers):
             variant_queue.put(None)
diff --git a/genmod/score_variants/compound_scorer.py b/genmod/score_variants/compound_scorer.py
index 04c39b4..3d90c65 100755
--- a/genmod/score_variants/compound_scorer.py
+++ b/genmod/score_variants/compound_scorer.py
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ def run(self):
 
                         #TODO check if correct family id
                         # Right now we assume that there is only one family in the vcf
-
                         family_id = family_rank_score[0]
                         rank_score = float(family_rank_score[-1])
 
@@ -193,7 +192,7 @@ def run(self):
             # Per variant, find rank score max min values used for normalization
             variant_rankscore_normalization_bounds: Dict[str, Tuple] = \
                 self._get_rankscore_normalization_bounds(variant_batch)
-
+            
             #We now have a dictionary with variant ids and rank scores, per rank_score_type
             for variant_id in variant_batch:
                 # If the variants only follow AR_comp (and AD for single individual families)
@@ -235,15 +234,9 @@ def run(self):
                         logger.debug("Checking compounds for family {0}".format(
                             compound_family_id))
 
-
                         #Loop through compounds to check if they are only low scored
                         for compound_id in compound_list:
-
-
-
                             compound_rank_score = rank_scores[rank_score_type][compound_id]
-
-
                             if compound_rank_score > get_rank_score(rank_score_type=rank_score_type,
                                                                     threshold=self.threshold,
                                                                     min_rank_score_value=variant_rankscore_normalization_bounds[variant_id][0],
@@ -253,7 +246,6 @@ def run(self):
                         logger.debug("Setting only_low to {0}".format(only_low))
 
                         if (correct_score and only_low):
-
                             logger.debug("correcting rank score for {0}".format(
                                 variant_id))
                             current_rank_score -= get_rank_score_as_magnitude(rank_score_type=rank_score_type,
@@ -288,10 +280,6 @@ def run(self):
                         variant['info_dict'][f'{rank_score_type}'] = new_rank_score_string
                         variant['info_dict'][f'Compounds{rank_score_type.strip("RankScore")}'] = new_compound_string
 
-                            # print(variant["info_dict"])
-                            # raise ValueError(variant)
-                        # import sys
-
                         variant = replace_vcf_info(
                             keyword=f'{rank_score_type}',
                             annotation = new_rank_score_string,
@@ -312,7 +300,6 @@ def run(self):
                             annotation=new_compound_string,
                             variant_dict=variant
                         )
-
                 logger.debug("Putting variant in results_queue")
 
                 self.results_queue.put(variant)