📋 Database Update Log

2026-08-19
🔗 External Resources Update
• Added external database links (NCBI Gene, TAIR, Ensembl Plants, RAP-DB, MSU Rice Genome Annotation, Phytozome) in the homepage footer
• Gene IDs in search results now link to external databases (NCBI Gene for all species, TAIR for Arabidopsis)
• Unified "Report a Bug" functionality across all pages — popup form replaces email links
2026-07-23
🔧 Website Enhancement Update
• Redesigned navigation bar with dropdown menus for Resources and Community sections
• Added community submission system — researchers can submit validated uORF peptides via Submit page
• Added Contributors page showcasing community-validated uORF peptides
• Added admin review system for quality control of community submissions
• Replaced email-based bug reporting with popup form on all pages (click "Report a Bug" in footer)
• Fixed conservation score consistency — identical peptide sequences now show consistent cross-species scores
• Enhanced mobile responsiveness across all pages
2026-05-15
🚀 Version 2.0 Major Update
• Added Ribo-seq uORF-level validation for Arabidopsis (5,297 experimentally validated uORFs)
• Integrated cross-species conservation analysis across 10 plant species (84,953 conserved genes)
• Launched machine learning-based translation probability prediction (5M uORFs, 79% accuracy)
• Discovered 6,628 novel conserved unannotated uORF peptides as experimental candidates
• New domain: plantuorf-pep.com with HTTPS support
2026-05-06
🔬 Ribo-seq Integration Update
• Added Sorghum bicolor Ribo-seq support (81.6% gene coverage)
• Integrated 6 species Ribo-seq data covering 60% of uORF-hosting genes
• Updated Batch Search with file upload and Ribo-seq validation column
2026-04-22
🌱 Database Launch
• Initial release: 16.2M uORFs across 30 plant species
• Gene symbol mapping for 3.4M identifiers
• Web search, batch query, and data download