A guide to identifying and prioritising drug targets with the Open Targets Platform

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 explorerelevantannotation 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 infrastructurecodebases 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 forlab-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

Speakers

• Helena Cornu
  EMBL-EBI
• Andrew Hercules
  EMBL-EBI