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Public-private partnership using human genetics and genomics data for systematic drug target identification and prioritisation. http://blog.opentargets.org
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The recently-announced Open Psychiatry Project is the first initiative to jointly analyse UK mental health research data

Findings from this project will be integrated into the Open Targets Platform to help identify and prioritise the most promising therapeutic targets.
Quote accompanying a photo of Ellen McDonagh, Open Targets Translational Informatics Director and EMBL-EBI co-lead for the Open Psychiatry Project: The Open Psychiatry Project will translate the power of omics data into identifying potential new treatments for mental health conditions. This is the first major initiative to bring together mental health data for multiple stakeholders in an accessible way, and analysing this information collectively is a key step towards finding new targets for drug development.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Millions of people are affected by mental health conditions, yet progress in treatment has been slow.

The Open Psychiatry Project aims to change that with a secure platform linking genetic and clinical mental health data.

@cam.ac.uk @opentargets.org

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New data initiative accelerates discovery and personalised care for mental health conditions
EMBL-EBI receives UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funding for enhancing and translating mental-health omics data into the Open Targets Pl...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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And that's the Open Targets Hackathon done! 🧬🖥️

Thank you to everyone who joined in person and online, and who contributed to make this event a success

Particular thanks to our sponsors: Gates Foundation, Google Cloud, and @thehyvenl.bsky.social 🎉
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October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Open Targets Hackathon Day 1!

Following our official kick off yesterday, there was some incredible energy and focus in the room

Thanks to our sponsors Gates Foundation, Google Cloud, and @thehyvenl.bsky.social for making this possible!
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October 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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The Open Targets Hackathon is today! 🎉

We're super excited to kick off this event celebrating 10 years of the Open Targets Platform

Thank you to Google Cloud for sponsoring our compute and Hariprasad Radhakrishnan for mentoring our teams and sharing this video — made with Google Veo 3! 🖥️🧬
October 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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At #ASHG25 and want to find out more about the largest and most comprehensive systematic analysis of common variation in humans?

Go find Daniel at poster board 1014T!
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October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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We're at #ASHG2025!

Come say hello and find out more about Open Targets projects 👋
Find us at ASHG 2025. The graphic lists speakers in the Featured Symposium, beyond transcriptomics: can imaging bridge the gap in variant interpretation, and poster presenters. The two speakers are Gosia Trynka and Helena Kilpinen. The four poster presenters are: Catherine Sutherland, Haerin Jang, Annalisa Buniello, and Daniel Considine. Four Open
October 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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CLOSING: Postdoc in @francescoiorio.bsky.social's lab at @humantechnopole.bsky.social

Apply through LinkedIn by 5 October: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

#scienceJobs #AcademicSky #postdocJobs
Closing job ad for a postdoc in CRISPR meta-analytics and AI, from Open Targets and the Human Technopole. The role is in the Iorio Lab, salary up to 40k euros, apply by 5 October. The description reads: The Perturbation Catalogue project aims to create an online repository of data from post-perturbational experiments. You will focus on a meta-analytics project, developing computational methods for the reproducibility assessment, harmonisation and analysis or inter-study CRISPR datasets, aggregating data and developing and using innovative AI-based methods for therapeutic target prioritisation pipelines.
October 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Out now in Nature Comms: the largest trans-eQTL meta-analysis in a single cell type!

An Open Targets team led by Krista Freimann and @kauralasoo.bsky.social analysed 3,734 lymphoblastoid cell line samples across nine cohorts, identifying four robust loci

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Trans-eQTL mapping prioritises USP18 as a negative regulator of interferon response at a lupus risk locus - Nature Communications | Open Targets
Out now in Nature Comms: the largest trans-eQTL meta-analysis in a single cell type! An Open Targets team led by Krista Freimann and Kaur Alasoo analysed 3,734 lymphoblastoid cell line samples across...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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CLOSING:

➡️ Senior Bioinformatician with Roser Vento Tormo
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➡️ Technical Specialist (neuro) with Omer Ali Bayraktar
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Both @sangerinstitute.bsky.social roles close on 2 October
Technical Specialist: Neurodegenerative Disease Spatial Transcriptomics and Data Generation
Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenge...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Excited for a major milestone in our efforts to map enhancers and interpret variants in the human genome:

The E2G Portal! e2g.stanford.edu

This collates our predictions of enhancer-gene regulatory interactions across >1,600 cell types and tissues.

Uses cases 👇

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September 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The Open Targets Platform autumn release is out! 🍂

We have ingested the full dataset of over 13 million enhancer-gene regulatory interactions in the human genome across 1,458 DNase-seq experiments covering 369 cell types and tissues from the ENCODE-rE2G model

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Open Targets Platform 25.09 has been released!
The September 25 release includes enhancer-gene data predicted by ENCODE-rE2G, molQTL credible sets for targets, new options for the variant structural viewer, and a number of data updates from GWAS C...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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🚩1 MILLION curated associations!!! 🚩
Launched in 2008, took us 15 years to reach 500K, and thanks to your research and collaboration, we doubled the number in less than 3 years!
See some data insights tinyurl.com/mw53njbb
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September 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Last call to submit a project for the Open Targets Hackathon!

Submit a project by 12 September: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We will prioritise projects where the project leads have signed up to attend the hackathon. Registrations are currently full but you can sign up to the waiting list
Open Targets Hackathon: one week left to submit a project
September 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Out now on bioRxiv! 🧬🖥️

A team from the Cowley, Bassett, and @gosiatrynka.bsky.social labs integrate pooled iPSC phenotyping, transcriptomics, and CRISPR perturbations to identify genetic drivers of molecular and cellular phenotypes in microglia

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Integrated QTL mapping and CRISPR screening in pooled iPSC-derived microglia reveals genetic drivers of neurodegenerative risk
Mounting evidence implicates microglia in neurodegeneration, but linking disease-associated genetic variants to target genes and cellular phenotypes is hindered by the inaccessibility of these cells. ...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Out now! 🧬

Lewis Evans and the team at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and UCL define the pathways for tau entry into human neurons, a key mechanism for the progression of tauopathies associated with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease

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#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Tau uptake by human neurons depends on receptor LRP1 and kinase LRRK2 | The EMBO Journal
imageimageNeuronal uptake of extracellular tau protein is thought to propagate intracellular protein aggregation between neurons, contributing to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegener...
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August 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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CLOSING: Front end developer for the Open Targets Platform

Join @carcruz.dev's team and help us turn complex data into powerful discovery tools, working closely with our industry and academic partners

Apply by 19 August

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#ReactJobs #DevJobs
Front-End Web Developer
We are looking for an exceptional Web Developer to join Open Targets at EMBL-EBI. Join Open Targets at EMBL-EBI as a Web Developer and help transform vast biomedical data into insights that drive safe...
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August 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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NEW: Front-End Web Dev @ebi.embl.org

Join the Open Targets Platform team!

Design and build this cloud-first, open-source application, used to explore and prioritise potential drug targets

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Front-End Web Developer
We are looking for an exceptional Web Developer to join Open Targets at EMBL-EBI. Join Open Targets at EMBL-EBI as a Web Developer and help transform vast biomedical data into insights that drive safe...
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August 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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“It’s been a very collaborative experience.”

@malloryfreeberg.bsky.social talks to us about developing the Perturbation Catalogue

The beta version is available to explore now, and the team are keen to hear your feedback!
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Why Mallory Freeberg is creating a perturbation catalogue
The Perturbation Catalogue is an Open Targets project which aims to bring genetic perturbation data into one curated, harmonised, and discoverable platform. Mallory Freeberg, one of the project leads,...
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August 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Google Cloud is sponsoring the compute for the Open Targets hackathon!

There is now a waiting list to attend the event in person, but project submissions and online registrations are still open.

The two-day hackathon will explore data, analyses, and tools for target discovery
Text reads: Open Targets hackathon, 21-22 October 2025, compute sponsored by Google Cloud
July 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Meet Carlos Cruz! Carlos joined the Open Targets Platform team in 2021 🖥️🧬

@carcruz.dev, what is your role in Open Targets?
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July 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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We're proud to play our part in diversifying genetic and genomic datasets by supporting this important work in Latin America co-led by Open Targets Science Director @gosiatrynka.bsky.social

Greater genetic diversity improves discovery and brings us closer to better, more inclusive medicines
July 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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🧬 New @emblebi.bsky.social service beta launched:
Perturbation Catalogue

🔎 Browse genetic perturbation datasets
🧠 Train models
🧬 Interpret variant function
🧭 Explore gene dependencies

Search, test APIs, suggest datasets, send feedback!
🔗 www.ebi.ac.uk/perturbation...

Funded by @opentargets.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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We have now deprecated Open Targets Genetics — it has been superseded by the Open Targets Platform

The team said goodbye to Open Targets Genetics, through the medium of memes

Enjoy!
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July 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Open licenses power discovery!

Melissa Harrison shares a @opentargets.org use case:

Open Targets identifies and prioritises drug targets using AI to extract gene, drug, and disease mentions and relationships to building drug development evidence

#ChooseOpenWebinar for updates 💡
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July 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM