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Although the compact nature of genes in phages is a problem for current gene annotators, we exploit this property by treating a phage genome as a network of paths: where open reading frames are favorable, and overlaps and gaps are less favorable, but still possible. We represent this network of connections as a weighted graph, and use dynamic programing to find the optimal path.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We compare PHANOTATE to other gene callers by annotating a set of 2133 complete phage genomes from GenBank, using PHANOTATE and the three most popular gene callers. We found that the four programs agree on 82% of the total predicted genes, with PHANOTATE predicting more genes than the other three. We searched for these extra genes in both GenBank’s non-redundant protein database and all of the metagenomes in the sequence read archive, and found that they are present at levels that suggest that these are functional protein-coding genes.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Availability and implementation</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>https://github.com/deprekate/PHANOTATE</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Supplementary information</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.</jats:p>\n                  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