The Open Targets Platform - https://platform.opentargets.org/ - is a comprehensive research tool that supports systematic identification and prioritisation of potential therapeutic drug targets.‌ By integrating publicly available datasets along with data generated by the Open Targets consortium, the Platform builds and scores target-disease associations. Users can also explore relevant annotation information about targets, diseases, phenotypes, and drugs, as well as their most relevant relationships.

This webinar will provide an overview of the Open Targets Platform which is a freely available resource that is actively maintained with bi-monthly data updates. All data is available through an intuitive user interface, a GraphQL API, and data downloads. Likewise, the pipeline and infrastructure codebases are open-source and can be used to create a self-hosted private instance of the Platform with custom data.

Who is this course for?

This webinar is suitable for lab-based and computational research scientists, graduate students, and post-doctoral research fellows working in early stage drug discovery.

Outcomes

By the end of the webinar you will be able to:

• Identify the types of ‘omics data integrated into the Platform 
• Explore target-disease associations and supporting evidence available in the Platform
• List different ways to access the Platform data

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.OpenTargetsPlatform-w.2021.00001.1

This webinar took place on 19 May 2021. Please click the 'Watch video' button to view the recording.