Juan Pablo Couso

This paper outlines a community-driven initiative to create a consolidated catalog of human Ribo-seq ORFs, addressing the lack of standardized annotation for these features.

The paper identifies a small peptide, pegasus, that enhances Wg diffusion during Drosophila wing development, contributing to proper wing margin formation.

The paper improves Poly-Ribo-Seq to study small ORF translation in Drosophila embryos, revealing both productive and non-productive ribosomal binding patterns across embryonic stages.