diff --git a/misc-scripts/ebi_search_dump/ebi_search_dump.pl b/misc-scripts/ebi_search_dump/ebi_search_dump.pl
index 91cd08bffe5802ccb89b8ab9ae1bb49bf20f88ff..366090818a8944f8f8c48b7632d08a3e5a66abd3 100755
--- a/misc-scripts/ebi_search_dump/ebi_search_dump.pl
+++ b/misc-scripts/ebi_search_dump/ebi_search_dump.pl
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ sub familyLineXML {
     my $xml = qq{ 
 <entry id="$xml_data->{fid}"> 
 <name>$xml_data->{fid}</name> 
-   <description>[$xml_data->{description}]</description>
+   <description>$description</description>
    <cross_references>} .
       (
         join "",