diff --git a/sql/table.sql b/sql/table.sql
index a0ed3c0c5408680762d68f64dfc57e9c75739970..22e47ad25fa55244990c13b84b9e87ef6dd1db4c 100755
--- a/sql/table.sql
+++ b/sql/table.sql
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ CREATE TABLE external_db(
          external_db_id INT not null auto_increment,
          db_name ENUM ('gene_name','Celera_Pep','Celera_Trans','Celera_Gene','HumanGenscans','protein_id','SCOP','HUGO','GO','SPTREMBL','EMBL','MarkerSymbol','SWISSPROT','PDB','MIM','RefSeq','LocusLink','Interpro','Superfamily','Anopheles_symbol','Anopheles_paper','wormbase_gene','wormbase_transcript','wormpep_id','flybase_gene','flybase_transcript','flybase_symbol','drosophila_gene_id','GKB', 'BRIGGSAE_HYBRID','AFFY_HG_U133','AFFY_HG_U95','sanger_probe','Vega','Sanger_Mver1_1_1','AFFY_MG_U74','AFFY_MG_U74v2','AFFY_Mu11Ksub','AFFY_RG_U34','AFFY_RN_U34','AFFY_RT_U34') not null,
 	 release VARCHAR(40) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
-	 status  ENUM ('KNOWNXREF','KNOWN','XREF','PRED') not null,
+	 status  ENUM ('KNOWNXREF','KNOWN','XREF','PRED','ORTH') not null,
          PRIMARY KEY( external_db_id ) 
 );