diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-testing.Listeria.Kraken1.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-testing.Listeria.Kraken1.yml
index e06f425..9d5c442 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-testing.Listeria.Kraken1.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-testing.Listeria.Kraken1.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # This is a subsampling unit test to get early results
 on: 
   push:
-    branches: [master, dev, validate-taxonomy]
+    branches: [master, dev]
 name: Listeria-with-Kraken1
 
 env:
@@ -41,18 +41,10 @@ jobs:
           tree $(realpath .)
       - name: install-edirect
         run:  |
-          sudo apt-get install ncbi-entrez-direct
-          echo "installed edirect the apt way"
-          exit
-          cd $HOME
-          perl -MNet::FTP -e '$ftp = new Net::FTP("ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", Passive => 1); $ftp->login; $ftp->binary; $ftp->get("/entrez/entrezdirect/edirect.tar.gz");'
-          gunzip -cv edirect.tar.gz | tar xf -
-          rm -v edirect.tar.gz
-          echo $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/edirect >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/entrezdirect/install-edirect.sh)"
+          echo $HOME/edirect >> $GITHUB_PATH
           echo $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/Kalamari/bin >> $GITHUB_PATH
-          #export PATH=${PATH}:$HOME/edirect >& /dev/null || setenv PATH "${PATH}:$HOME/edirect"
-          yes Y | ./edirect/setup.sh
-          tree edirect
+          tree $HOME/edirect
       - name: check-env
         run:  echo "$PATH"
       - name: select for only Listeria
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-testing.Yersinia.Kraken2.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-testing.Yersinia.Kraken2.yml
index 0f7efde..4b34a7a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-testing.Yersinia.Kraken2.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-testing.Yersinia.Kraken2.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # This is a subsampling unit test to get early results
 on: 
   push:
-    branches: [master, dev, validate-taxonomy]
+    branches: [master, dev]
 name: Genera-with-Kraken2
 
 env:
@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ jobs:
       - name: env check
         run:  |
           echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n' | sort
+
+      - name: install-edirect
+        run:  |
+          sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/entrezdirect/install-edirect.sh)"
+          echo $HOME/edirect >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          echo $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/Kalamari/bin >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          tree $HOME/edirect 
+                   
       - name: apt-get install
         run:  sudo apt-get install ca-certificates tree jellyfish ncbi-entrez-direct
       - name: select for only for this genus
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-testing.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-testing.yml
index 2cb5dd3..b29d7bb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-testing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-testing.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 on: 
   push:
-    branches: [master, dev, validate-taxonomy]
+    branches: [master, dev]
 name: Pull-down-all-accessions
 
 jobs:
@@ -25,18 +25,13 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: apt-get install
         run:  sudo apt-get install ca-certificates tree
+        
       - name: install-edirect
         run:  |
-          sudo apt-get install ncbi-entrez-direct
-          echo "installed edirect the apt way"
-          exit
-          cd $HOME
-          perl -MNet::FTP -e '$ftp = new Net::FTP("ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", Passive => 1); $ftp->login; $ftp->binary; $ftp->get("/entrez/entrezdirect/edirect.tar.gz");'
-          gunzip -cv edirect.tar.gz | tar xf -
-          rm -v edirect.tar.gz
-          export PATH=${PATH}:$HOME/edirect >& /dev/null || setenv PATH "${PATH}:$HOME/edirect"
-          yes Y | ./edirect/setup.sh
-          tree edirect
+          sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/entrezdirect/install-edirect.sh)"
+          echo $HOME/edirect >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          echo $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/Kalamari/bin >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          tree $HOME/edirect
       - name: check-env
         run:  echo "$PATH"
       - name: download
diff --git a/.github/workflows/validateTaxonomy.yml b/.github/workflows/validateTaxonomy.yml
index 5147f40..1ab159c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validateTaxonomy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validateTaxonomy.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 on: 
   push:
-    branches: [master, dev, validate-taxonomy]
+    branches: [master, dev, esearch-input]
 name: Validate taxonomy
 
 jobs:
@@ -27,11 +27,18 @@ jobs:
           echo $PATH
           echo ""
           cat $GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: install taxonkit
+        run:  |
+          wget https://github.com/shenwei356/taxonkit/releases/download/v0.16.0/taxonkit_linux_amd64.tar.gz
+          tar -xvf taxonkit_linux_amd64.tar.gz
+          rm -v taxonkit_linux_amd64.tar.gz
+          chmod +x taxonkit
+          echo $(realpath .) >> $GITHUB_PATH
       - name: build taxonomy
         run:  |
           echo $PATH
-          bash Kalamari/bin/buildTaxonomy.sh
-          bash Kalamari/bin/filterTaxonomy.sh
+          bash -x Kalamari/bin/buildTaxonomy.sh
+          bash -x Kalamari/bin/filterTaxonomy.sh
           ls -lhR Kalamari/share/kalamari-*/taxonomy
       - name: validate taxonomy
         run:  |
diff --git a/bin/buildKraken1.sh b/bin/buildKraken1.sh
index 0e058c9..f1816b0 100755
--- a/bin/buildKraken1.sh
+++ b/bin/buildKraken1.sh
@@ -22,13 +22,15 @@ cp -rv $TAXDIR $DB/taxonomy
 
 # Make --add-to-library more efficient with
 # concatenated fasta files
+export nl=$'\n'
 find $SRC -name '*.fasta.gz' | \
   xargs -n 100 -P 1 bash -c '
     for i in "$@"; do
       gzip -cd $i
     done > $tmpfile
     echo -ne "ADDING to library:\n  "
-    zgrep "^>" $tmpfile | sed "s/^>//" | tr '\n' ' '
+    zgrep "^>" $tmpfile | sed "s/^>//" | tr "$nl" " "
+    echo
     echo "^^ contents of $tmpfile ^^"
     kraken-build --db $DB --add-to-library $tmpfile
   '
@@ -38,3 +40,7 @@ kraken-build --db $DB --build --threads 1
 # Reduce the size of the database
 kraken-build --db $DB --clean
 
+
+if [ ! -e "$sharedir/kalamari-kraken1" ]; then
+  ln -sv kalamari-kraken "$sharedir/kalamari-kraken1"
+fi
diff --git a/bin/downloadKalamari.pl b/bin/downloadKalamari.pl
index 3a30c2b..34526a5 100755
--- a/bin/downloadKalamari.pl
+++ b/bin/downloadKalamari.pl
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 use IO::Compress::Gzip;
 use version 0.77;
 
-our $VERSION = version->parse("5.6.3");
+our $VERSION = version->parse("5.7.0");
 
 use threads;
 
@@ -167,27 +167,25 @@ sub downloadEntries{
   my $numEntries = scalar(@$entries);
   my @acc = map{$$_{nuccoreAcc}} @$entries;
   logmsg "Downloading ".scalar(@acc)." accessions";
-  my $queryArg = join("[accession] OR ", sort(@acc))."[accession]";
   my $dir = tempdir("download.XXXXXX", DIR=>$$settings{tempdir});
 
+  # Make the input file for efetch
+  my $inputAcc = "$dir/input.acc";
+  open(my $fh, ">", $inputAcc) or die "ERROR: could not write to $inputAcc: $!";
+  print $fh join("\n", @acc)."\n";
+  close $fh;
+
   # Accessions that had errors
   my @err;
 
-  # Get the esearch xml in place for at least one downstream query
-  my $esearchXml = "$dir/esearch.xml";
-  my $esearchCmd = "esearch -db nuccore -query '$queryArg' > $esearchXml";
-  command($esearchCmd);
+  # Get started on the comprehensive assembly file
+  my $outfile = "$dir/all.fasta";
+  logmsg "Downloading all accessions to $outfile using input accessions in $inputAcc";
+  command("efetch -db nuccore -input $inputAcc -format fasta > $dir/all.fasta");
   if($?){
-    die "ERROR running: $esearchCmd: $!";
+    die "ERROR: could not download all accessions";
   }
 
-  # Get started on the assembly file
-  my $outfile = "$dir/all.fasta";
-
-  # Main query: efetch
-  my $efetchCmd = "cat $esearchXml | efetch -format fasta > $outfile";
-  system($efetchCmd);
-
   my $seqsWithVersion = readSeqs($outfile);
   my $seqs = {};
   while(my($acc, $seq) = each(%$seqsWithVersion)){
diff --git a/bin/filterTaxonomy.sh b/bin/filterTaxonomy.sh
index 48fbb3f..38d1bb8 100755
--- a/bin/filterTaxonomy.sh
+++ b/bin/filterTaxonomy.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 set -eu
 
+# Check for dependencies
+echo "Check for dependencies"
+which taxonkit
+echo
+
 thisdir=$(dirname $0)
 thisfile=$(basename $0)
 KALAMARI_VER=$(downloadKalamari.pl --version)