James Fellows Yates
11/14/2025, 10:15 AMtar archives due to a range of incompatibilities between kraken/bracken vs nextflow vs containers, but I don't think it will be a huge loss - and I also wrote documentation how to do it manually in the FAQ :)
Otherwise thanks to @novelvirus @moritz @Sofia Stamouli '@ellmagu' for the help and contributions to this one!
CHANGELOG:
### Added
• #108 - Document workaround for building databases from single FASTA files, e.g. from NCBI RefSeq (by @pcantalupo)
• #111 - Added sourmash reference building both for genomes and proteomes (by @Midnighter).
• #117 - Updated to nf-core/tools template 3.4.1 (by @jfy133)
• #124 - Added sylph reference building (by @jfy133 and @sofstam).
### Fixed
• #110 - Corrected the documented structures of the grouped output from the PREPROCESSING subworkflow
(by @Midnighter).
• #121 - Fix Kraken2 build failing with local files due to symlink-in-symlink mounting error with containers (❤️ to @ellmagu for reporting, fix by @jfy133)
• #122 - Update DIAMOND to support more recent versions of NCBI taxonomy (by @jfy133)
• #123 - Fix a MALT build validation check incorrectly assigned to --build_krakenuniq (by @jfy133)
• #133 - Fix Kaiju compatible renamed FASTA files being always published even if --kaiju_keepintermediates false (by @jfy133)
### Dependencies
| Tool | Old Version | New Version |
| -------- | ----------- | ----------- |
| sourmash | | 4.9.4 |
| sylph | | 0.9.0 |
| kraken2 | 2.1.5 | 2.1.6 |
| tar | 1.34 | |
| nf-core | 3.3.2 | 3.4.1 |
| DIAMOND | 2.1.12 | 2.1.16 |
| MultiQC | 1.31 | 1.32 |
| Nextflow | 24.04.2 | 25.04.2 |
### Deprecated
• #118 - Deprecated automated building of tar.gz archives of all databases (by @jfy133)
• #126 - Remove guidance about needed double and single quotes when giving to --<tool>_build_options as actually not necessary (by @jfy133)