diff --git a/mutalyzer/describe.py b/mutalyzer/describe.py
index 520322ba07c1ff9e0cf4240393be53ab28111070..246a5d1a455efeb55841b813e4bd9b87111845c1 100644
--- a/mutalyzer/describe.py
+++ b/mutalyzer/describe.py
@@ -303,14 +303,13 @@ def describe_dna(s1, s2):
     description = Allele()
     in_transposition = 0
 
-    variant_extract = extractor.extract(str(s1), len(s1), str(s2), len(s2), 0)
-    for variant in variant_extract.variants:
-        print (variant.type, variant.reference_start,
-            variant.reference_end, variant.sample_start,
-            variant.sample_end, variant.transposition_start,
-            variant.transposition_end)
-        print (variant.type & extractor.TRANSPOSITION_OPEN, variant.type &
-            extractor.TRANSPOSITION_CLOSE)
+    for variant in extractor.extract(unicode(s1), len(s1), unicode(s2), len(s2), 0):
+       # print (variant.type, variant.reference_start,
+       #     variant.reference_end, variant.sample_start,
+       #     variant.sample_end, variant.transposition_start,
+       #     variant.transposition_end)
+       # print (variant.type & extractor.TRANSPOSITION_OPEN, variant.type &
+       #     extractor.TRANSPOSITION_CLOSE)
 
         if variant.type & extractor.TRANSPOSITION_OPEN:
             if not in_transposition:
diff --git a/mutalyzer/extractor_loader.py b/mutalyzer/extractor_loader.py
index c1930c3a404abb9edbe103121b94622ec64e161e..81f43ccead409525b3c1b32b4112350e56ffc8d9 100644
--- a/mutalyzer/extractor_loader.py
+++ b/mutalyzer/extractor_loader.py
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ def main():
 
     extracted_allele = describe.describe_dna(ref, alt)
 
-    print "Description Extractor Version " + describe.extractor.VERSION
-    #print "HGVS: " + describe.allele_description(extracted_allele)
-    print "JSON: " + json.dumps({"reference_sequence": ref, "sample_sequence": alt, "allele_description": extracted_allele}, cls=MyEncoder)
+    #print "Description Extractor Version " + describe.extractor.VERSION
+    print extracted_allele
+    #print "JSON: " + json.dumps({"reference_sequence": ref, "sample_sequence": alt, "allele_description": extracted_allele}, cls=MyEncoder)
 
 #main
 
diff --git a/mutalyzer/test.py b/mutalyzer/test.py
index 3bd46d1af48cebd83612dab9ffda6a191e86e911..acdca95dd7b58c417a84951d49c5ea5844c9932a 100644
--- a/mutalyzer/test.py
+++ b/mutalyzer/test.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ def main():
     extracted_allele = describe.describe_dna(ref, alt)
 
     print extracted_allele
-    #print describe.allele_description(extracted_allele)
     print json.dumps({"reference_sequence": ref, "sample_sequence": alt,
         "allele_description": extracted_allele}, cls=MyEncoder)
 #main