Adding The Virulence Factor Database to Prokka?

[djung0928]

Hello Prokka team, I have been using Prokka with a default setting for annotating E. coli genomes. I noticed that the identified virulence factor genes are different between ABRicate (VFDB) and Prokka. Is there any way that I can add The Virulence Factor Database (VFDB) for another database of prokka?

It seems that a lot of comparative genomic analysis papers use prokka and for virulence factors on VFDB, instead of identifying VF genes using prokka (same for identifyinig AMR genes). So maybe it's hard to add VFDB to prokka?

Having said that, I was wondering if I could add VFDB for VF annotation using prokka.

Thanks!