Kluyveromyces marxianus is not found in MetaPhlan4 database

Microbial community profiling MetaPhlAn
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Version：
Software: MetaPhlAn version 4.0.6 (1 Mar 2023)
Database: mpa_vJun23_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202403_species.txt.bz2

Our team is particularly interested in Kluyveromyces marxianus, but it is not found in this (and previous) database.

Would you mind if I ask whether this species is removed during marker genes building process? and is it possible that I can add it in the database?

Thank you very much for your time!

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Hi @HuangRuocheng
I confirm it is not present in the database, we only have a limited number of eukaryotic SGB in the database, so we never included this species. We are currently working on expanding the non-prokaryotic portion of the database.

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OK, thank you very much! (I am trying to just add its alignments to the sam file and then estimate its abundance)