diff --git a/misc-scripts/attribute_types/attrib_type.txt b/misc-scripts/attribute_types/attrib_type.txt
index 4baed576307a52415e9a6e14bab69b0be6d9afa8..cf4e5178d6f79e9f6bb9fa30f7ef33f68819027d 100644
--- a/misc-scripts/attribute_types/attrib_type.txt
+++ b/misc-scripts/attribute_types/attrib_type.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 3	synonym	Synonym
 
-4	name	Name
+4	name	Name	Alternative/long name
 
 5	type	Type of feature
 
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
 15	miRNA	Micro RNA	Coordinates of the mature miRNA
 
 # A sequence region that you consider not part of the reference genome should
-# be tagged as non_ref in seq_region_attrib. Chromosome 6 haplotypes in human are
-# exmaples of that. 
+# be tagged as non_ref in seq_region_attrib. Chromosome 6 haplotypes in human
+# are exmaples of that. 
 16	non_ref	Non Reference	Non Reference Sequence Region
 
 17	sanger_project	Sanger Project name
@@ -98,5 +98,27 @@
 
 30	BACend_flag	BAC end flags
 
-#used by (Vega) web code to link WebFPC
+# used by Vega web code to link WebFPC
 31	fpc_clone_id	fpc clone
+
+# additional gene counts for Vega (see GeneCount for general description)
+32	NovelCDSCount	14:Novel CDS	Total Number of Novel CDSs
+33	NovelTransCount	16:Novel transcripts	Total Number of Novel transcripts
+34	PutTransCount	24:Putative transcripts	Total Number of Putative transcripts
+35	PredTransCount	30:Predicted transcripts	Total Number of Predicted transcripts
+36	IgSegCount	26:Ig segments	Total Number of Ig Segments
+37	IgPsSegCount	28:Ig pseudogene Segments	Total Number of Ig Pseudogene Segments
+38	TotPsCount	18:Total pseudogenes	Total Number of Pseudogenes
+39	UnclassPsCount	23:Unclassified pseudogenes	Number of Unclassified pseudogenes
+40	ProcPsCount	20:Processed pseudogenes	Number of Processed pseudogenes
+41	UnprocPsCount	22:Unprocessed pseudogenes	Number of Unprocessed pseudogenes
+42	KnwnprogCount	13:Known genes (in progress)	Number of Known Genes in progress
+43	NovCDSprogCount	15:Novel CDS (in progress)	Number of novel CDS in progress
+
+# Vega annotation stats
+44	AnnotSeqLength	03:Annotated sequence length	Total length of annotated clone sequence
+45	TotCloneNum	08:Total number of clones	Total number of clones
+46	NumAnnotClone	10:Number of annotated clones	Number of annotated clones
+
+# Acknowledgements for manual annotation of this seq_region
+47	ack	Acknowledgement		Acknowledgement