In our latest release of the Open Targets Platform, we have 13 publicly available data sources all integrated in one place to facilitate your drug target identification and prioritisation. We process this data following a complex and ever changing ETL (Extract, transform, load) pipeline, which right now is composed of…

How to write a beautiful CV, using markdown, css and html instead of LaTeX. — I have previously used LaTeX to typeset my curriculum vitae, as it invariably produces a beautiful looking document. I have now become frustrated at how long it takes me to relearn LaTeX from scratch every time I want to change something. Plus my .tex source file was becoming completely unreadable…

A comparison of open source tools to delete duplicate files — tl;dr I needed to clean up duplicates photos from my personal library. And because I could not choose which duplicate finder to try, I have decided to test them all. Amongst the free tools that were correct in identifying all duplicates in my test, dupd was the fastest. …

Many users look at our table view, showing which genes are associated to a specific disease: However, they sometimes want to restrict this view to a list of genes they are interested in, either because they have already focussed their attention on a specific set of targets or because these…

Please note you no longer need an API key. Read our [Discovering drug targets gets faster — our API upgrades to v3](http://blog.opentargets.org/discovering-drug-targets-gets-faster-our-api-upgrades-to-v3/) post to know why. I’ve got an API key. What happens now? Accessing our API is easy, free and available to all. Once you start using it, you will like it so much that you may…

Coinciding with release 1.1 of the Target Validation Platform, we are changing our name to Open Targets. Information about Open Targets will now be found on the new site at opentargets.org. However the Target Validation Platform will not be moving and will remain accessible from the usual targetvalidation.org. As you…

Since release 1.1, the Open Targets Platform, previously known as Target Validation Platform, exposes a public REST API to allow programmatic retrieval of data served at targetvalidation.org. …