diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 521db7ed..1107406f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### `Changed`
 
+- [#625](https://github.com/nf-core/mag/pull/625) - Updated link to geNomad database for downloading (reported by @amizeranschi, fix by @jfy133)
+
 ### `Fixed`
 
 - [#618](https://github.com/nf-core/mag/pull/618) - Fix CENTRIFUGE mkfifo failures by using work directory /tmp (reported by @skrakau, fix by @jfy133)
diff --git a/nextflow_schema.json b/nextflow_schema.json
index 59b8bb11..b2847b0c 100644
--- a/nextflow_schema.json
+++ b/nextflow_schema.json
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@
                 "genomad_db": {
                     "type": "string",
                     "description": "Database for virus classification with geNomad",
-                    "help_text": "Must be a directory containing the uncompressed contents from https://portal.nersc.gov/genomad/__data__/genomad_db_v1.1.tar.gz"
+                    "help_text": "Must be a directory containing the uncompressed contents from https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6994741 (nf-core/mag tested with v1.1)"
                 }
             }
         },