Open Targets Platform

Q&A with Babatomiwa Adebiyi, an intern with the Open Targets Platform

[4 minute read] Babatomiwa Adebiyi, a computer science student at MIT, tells us about his experience at Open Targets.

Working at Open Targets

Job seeking during the pandemic: a Q&A with Kostas Tsirigos

[4 minute read] How do you prepare for a virtual interview? What is the remote onboarding process like? Open Targets project manager Kostas Tsirigos tells us about his experience.

Guest Speakers

Open Targets hosts Kiran Musunuru: insights into the genetic basis of coronary heart disease

[7 minute read] Open Targets recently hosted Prof. Kiran Musunuru, who discussed his work into the genetic basis of coronary heart disease.

GWAS Catalog

Sharing is caring: why we need more freely available cancer GWAS summary statistics

[5 minute read] Why are few open access cancer GWAS summary statistics available? We call on researchers, journals, funders and charities to support and spread our message.

experimental science

Getting a finer view on genes leading to Alzheimer’s disease risk

[4 minute read] In a paper recently published in Nature Genetics, Schwartzentruber and his colleagues found 37 regions associated with Alzheimer’s disease, including 4 regions which hadn’t previously been identified.

Open Targets Platform

Rewriting the Open Targets Platform's Drug Index

[4 minute read] Discussion of the rewritten drug index including new data structure, technology and future steps.

Open Targets

How Open Targets is investigating 100 chromatin-related disorders | Rare Disease Day 2021

[5 minute read] Sebastian Gerety is a Senior Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute who oversees the the 100 chromatin-related disorders project. In honour of Rare Disease Day 2021, he told us about what they have been working on.

Open Targets Platform

The Beta version of the next-generation Open Targets Platform has been released!

[2 minute read] We are thrilled to share the new Platform beta version that reinvents the best of the old Platform but using a redesigned experience and improved usability.

Open Targets Platform

Open Targets Platform 21.02 has been released!

[4 minute read] The latest release of the Platform is live, and includes a number of data updates from our data providers and internal evidence generation pipelines.

Open Targets

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2021 — Perspectives from Open Targets

[4 minute read] If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that the world needs science. And science needs diversity. We asked some of our staff to tell us what being a woman in science means to them, and about some of the challenges of working during the pandemic.

Open Targets

Q&A with Nicole Toft, a summer intern with Open Targets

(4 minute read) During the summer of 2020, Open Targets welcomed two interns from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I caught up with Nicole Toft to find out about her experience interning with Open Targets.

experimental science

Q&A with Eddie Cano-Gámez, winner of the 2020 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award

What does a bald soprano have to do with genetics? If you’re Eddie Cano-Gámez, Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist play, The Bald Soprano (La Cantatrice Chauve), teaches you everything you need to know

Open Targets Platform

Open Targets Platform 20.11 has been released!

We have a new release of the Open Targets Platform - 20.11 - which includes data updates from ClinVar (EVA), Genomics England, PhenoDigm, PheWAS Catalog, and CRISPR, along with the removal of more duplicated evidence, and a small change in our tractability buckets

experimental science

In-GenIE-ous experiments to find causal variants from GWAS

[5 minute read] We developed a new method that can be used to screen up to a few dozen SNPs for a causal effect on gene transcription. We call it GenIE — Genome engineering-based Interrogation of Enhancers, and it was recently published in Nucleic Acids Research.

Open Targets Platform

How we improved our clinical trial curation during the COVID-19 lockdown

Learn how we leveraged the wide range of expertise amongst our lab-based experimental research colleagues to make valuable contributions to the Open Targets Platform and our target validation projects.

Open Targets Platform

The importance of Autophagy in drug discovery

Explore Reactome's new autophagy pathway and how it relates to drug discovery and the Open Targets Platform

Open Targets Platform

Introducing ClinGen’s Gene Validity Curations

Learn how the Open Targets Platform integrates and scores ClinGen's Gene-Disease Validity curation data to enhance rare disease associations

Open Targets Platform

Open Targets Platform 20.09 has been released!

We have a new release of the Open Targets Platform - 20.09 - which includes new data from ClinGen, updated Gene2Phenotype data, the removal of duplicated evidence, more clinical trial data, plus regular data updates

Genetics

Accessing Open Targets Genetics using GraphQL

A step-by-step guide to accessing the Open Targets Genetics portal using the GraphQL API.

coronavirus infectious disease

Open Targets releases our COVID-19 Target Prioritisation Tool

Open Targets is excited to introduce our COVID-19 Target Prioritisation Tool - http://covid19.opentargets.org/ - an interactive web portal allows users to explore host and viral targets and potential COVID-19 treatments

release notes

Open Targets Platform 20.06 has been released!

We have a new release of the Open Targets Platform with new disease terms including COVID-19, new chemical probes, updates to Open Targets Genetics evidence and more.

Open Targets Platform

Open Targets Platform: adding FDA data with Scala and Spark

Leveraging Spark and Scala to implement a performant ELT pipeline to integrate the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System into the Open Targets Platform

release notes

Open Targets Platform 20.04 has been released!

We have a new release of the Open Targets Platform with new target safety data, new target tractability modalities, more chemical probes and new associations.

Q&A

Prioritising your list of potential drug targets with tractability assessments

How tractable is a drug target? In this Open Targets Q&A, we explore the ChEMBL tractability (druggability) pipeline implemented in the Open Targets Platform.

Open Targets Genetics

GWAS causal inference in Open Targets

Finding GWAS causal inference for target identification and prioritisation using Open Targets Genetics and the Open Targets Platform.