About the Open Targets Platform

The Open Targets Platform is a comprehensive tool that supports systematic identification and prioritisation of potential therapeutic drug targets.

By integrating publicly available datasets including data generated by the Open Targets consortium, the Platform builds and scores target-disease associations to assist in drug target identification and prioritisation. It also integrates relevant annotation information about targets, diseases or phenotypes, variants, GWAS studies and drugs, as well as their most relevant relationships.

The Platform is a freely available resource that is actively maintained with quarterly data updates. Data is available through an intuitive user interface, an API, and data downloads. The pipeline and infrastructure codebases are open-source and the licence allows the creation of self-hosted private instances of the Platform with custom data.