Viral Refseq outdated on more than year in comparison with ICTV VMR.39

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I would suggest you rebuild kraken2 viral reference database using current official viral taxonomy provided on https://ictv.global/vmr.

according your publication
kraken2 viruses database based on viral refseq which is technically freezed for more than a year.

Your tool processed VMR.39 very smoothly. If interested, I can provide you url where kraken2 VMR.39 can be downloaded.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7408187/
Curation of viruses (NCBI:txid10239) NCBI’s virus taxonomic treatment is largely based on the classification and nomenclature provided by the ICTV. The ICTV (https://talk.ictvonline.org) provides two regularly updated key files, the Master Species List and the Virus Metadata Resource (VMR; 15, 23). The VMR contains the name of the exemplar virus (isolate) for each ICTV species as well as the corresponding GenBank accession number(s).