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Public-private partnership using human genetics and genomics data for systematic drug target identification and prioritisation. http://blog.opentargets.org
Introducing the official Open Targets Platform Model Context Protocol 🧬🖥️

In partnership with @anthropic.com, we’ve created an MCP server making Open Targets Platform data accessible to AI-powered tools and agents

Try it out and watch out for future releases: mcp.platform.opentargets.org/mcp
January 12, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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
They found an interesting variant in the USP18 locus: a trans-eQTL that increases the expression of 50 interferon response genes. This variant also colocalises with a GWAS signal for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Hackathon registrations are now open!

www.opentargets.org/hackathon

Join us in person or online on October 21-22, 2025 to explore data, analyses, and tools for target discovery.

Know someone who might be interested? Send this to them or tag them below!
July 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM