diff --git a/nextflow_schema.json b/nextflow_schema.json
index a0c433072b777fefb3f981f266180cd3c5e8ac3e..811f414d2940f897ad353c37543a117317b45610 100644
--- a/nextflow_schema.json
+++ b/nextflow_schema.json
@@ -197,6 +197,10 @@
                     "type": "boolean",
                     "description": "Keep multi-aligned reads"
                 },
+                "filter_pcr_picard": {
+                    "type": "boolean",
+                    "description": "Filter PCR duplicates with PICARD MarkDuplicates"
+                },
                 "max_insert_size": {
                     "type": "integer",
                     "description": "Maximum fragment size to consider. Only values > 0 are considered"