diff --git a/bin/funannotate-predict.py b/bin/funannotate-predict.py
index 0b01a875..b35be64c 100755
--- a/bin/funannotate-predict.py
+++ b/bin/funannotate-predict.py
@@ -1270,20 +1270,11 @@ def which_path(file_name):
 lib.print_table(InputListCounts)
 
 if args.keep_evm and os.path.isfile(EVM_out):
-    lib.log.info("Using existing EVM predictions")
+    lib.log.info("Using existing EVM predictions: {:}".format(EVM_out))
 else:
     #setup EVM run
     EVM_script = os.path.join(parentdir, 'bin', 'funannotate-runEVM.py')
 
-    #check if EVM input is identical as before
-    if os.path.isfile(Predictions+'.old'):
-        if not lib.sha256_check(Predictions, Predictions+'.old'):
-            #need to run EVM again, so delete output
-            if os.path.isfile(EVM_out):
-                os.remove(EVM_out)
-        else:
-            lib.log.info("Using existing EVM run data")
-
     #get absolute paths for everything
     Weights = os.path.abspath(Weights)
     EVM_out = os.path.abspath(EVM_out)
@@ -1307,8 +1298,10 @@ def which_path(file_name):
     #add output to command 
     evm_cmd = base_evm + ['--min_intron_length', str(args.min_intronlen), EVM_out]
     #run EVM
-    if not os.path.isfile(EVM_out):
-        subprocess.call(evm_cmd)
+    lib.log.debug(' '.join(evm_cmd))
+    subprocess.call(evm_cmd)
+    
+    #check output   
     try:
         total = lib.countGFFgenes(EVM_out)
     except IOError:
diff --git a/funannotate.py b/funannotate.py
index af3c9ee9..0175bf20 100755
--- a/funannotate.py
+++ b/funannotate.py
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ def fmtcols(mylist, cols):
            --repeats2evm            Use repeats in EVM consensus model building
            --repeat_filter          Repetitive gene model filtering. Default: overlap blast [overlap,blast,none]
            --keep_no_stops          Keep gene models without valid stops
+           --keep_evm               Keep existing EVM results (for rerunning pipeline)
            --SeqCenter              Sequencing facilty for NCBI tbl file. Default: CFMR
            --SeqAccession           Sequence accession number for NCBI tbl file. Default: 12345
            --force                  Annotated unmasked genome