diff --git a/src/main/java/nl/wur/bif/pantools/pangenome/Classification.java b/src/main/java/nl/wur/bif/pantools/pangenome/Classification.java
index b72322574a62cd58512cdbfc65ee84e8874516f4..cbc631094dded263cdfca614c1a49f2889509272 100644
--- a/src/main/java/nl/wur/bif/pantools/pangenome/Classification.java
+++ b/src/main/java/nl/wur/bif/pantools/pangenome/Classification.java
@@ -2476,10 +2476,10 @@ public class Classification {
             pheno_node = graphDb.createNode(phenotype_label);
             pheno_node.setProperty("genome", genome_nr);
         }
-        if (PROTEOME == false && !APPEND) {
+        if (!PROTEOME && !APPEND) {
             Node genome_node = graphDb.findNode(genome_label, "number", genome_nr);
             if (genome_node == null) {
-                System.out.println("No genome has been found with number: " + genome_nr + "\n");
+                System.out.println("\rNo genome has been found with number: " + genome_nr + "\n");
                 System.exit(1);
             }
             genome_node.createRelationshipTo(pheno_node, RelTypes.has_phenotype);