PELICAN combines prediction tools and machine learning for phage-genome annotation

PELICAN is a command-line phage-genome annotation tool that combines four gene-prediction tools, evaluates non-consensus genes with probabilistic and machine-learning methods, resolves overlaps and applies codon-bias checks. The paper reports best recall among the compared tools but a higher false-positive rate; its authors argue that protein-folding evidence suggests many may be true positives. The public repository indicates an MIT license; the article itself is CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.