🔎🤔What is Open Targets?
Our recent review is a crash course in how we came to be, the science that we do, and the impact of this industry-academia collaboration on our partners and the community
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ALT An illustration of the Open Targets project framework, and an example of an Open Targets research project showing the emergence and journey of a potential target lead through the workflow. We bring together publicly available data with data generated through the collaborative research program’s projects to provide causal evidence for target-disease associations as well as foundational knowledge related to genes and diseases. This knowledge is integrated into our open-source informatics platforms. Potential targets are fed into our validation lab for further mechanistic insights. The workflow at each step feeds into our industry partners’ drug discovery pipelines, and, once publicly available, into the wider scientific and drug discovery community, with the ultimate aim of helping to develop safer and more effective medicines
The EVA team is excited to announce our fifth RS ID release - containing 2.2 billion variants from 250 species.
ALT Release 5 - 2.2 billion variant loci in 250 species
18 New species including
European seabass
Millet
Plasmodium vivax
Improved separation per taxonomy
Improvement of Flax Quantitative Traits - An analysis into genetic diversity, SNP/gene identification of specific traits and optimization of genomic selection models in NDSU Flax core collection
SS ID variants now available to download - buff.ly/42rfznE
Data available from Shenyang Agricultural University:
Liaoning Provincial Department of Education Project for Youth Scientists - buff.ly/3ILIDzc#zeamays#maize
We had a great time last week on our virtual human #geneticvariation course & loved having you back for today's follow-up session.
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ALT A zoom screenshot of 26 people smiling at the camera under the words Exploring human genetic variation. EMBL-EBI virtual course | 21 – 23 and 30 March 2023. EMBL-EBI logo.