my ($self, $input) = @_;
    
    $self->throw("one argument needed") unless($input and defined($input));
    $self->throw("a Bio::Tools::Prediction::Gene object needed")
        unless(ref($input) && $input->isa('Bio::Tools::Prediction::Gene'));

    my $output = Bio::EnsEMBL::PredictionTranscript->new;
    $output->analysis($self->analysis);

    my @exons = sort {$a->start <=> $b->start} $input->exons;

    # Not sure on the correctivity of phase calculation.
    my $previous_end_phase = -1;
    foreach(@exons){
        my $length = $_->length;
        my $frame = $_->frame;
        my $phase = ($previous_end_phase+1) %3;
        my $end_phase = ($length-$frame)  %1;
        $previous_end_phase = $end_phase;
        $_->add_tag_value("phase", $phase);
        $_->add_tag_value("end_phase", $end_phase);
    }

    my @ens_exons = @{$self->{_predictionExonConverter}->convert(\@exons)};

    $output->add_Exon($_) foreach(@ens_exons);

    return $output;

    my ($self, @args) = @_;

    $self->{_predictionExonConverter} = new Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::Converter(
        -in => 'Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::Exon',
        -out => 'Bio::EnsEMBL::Exon',
    );
    $self->SUPER::_initialize(@args);
    
    $self->{_predictionExonConverter}->contig($self->contig);
    $self->{_predictionExonConverter}->analysis($self->analysis);

    my ($self, $arg) = @_;
    if(defined($arg)){
        $self->throws("A Bio::EnsEMBL::RawContig object expected.") unless(defined $arg);
        $self->{_contig} = $arg;
        # assign it to the sub converter which converts exons
        $self->{_predictionExonConverter}->contig($arg);
    }
    return $self->{_contig};
}
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