Getting data from the Open Targets Platform

To learn more about the different ways in which you can access the data in the Platform, depending on the complexity of the query, watch the following video recorded on the 31st January 2024.

For queries about a single entity (disease, target, drug), or a single target-disease association, you can use either:

• The Platform’s web interface, in which individual data tables and visualisations can be downloaded for further analysis

• The GraphQL API, accessible with the programming language of your choice, or API playground with built-in documentation, which is useful for constructing and testing queries.
  The Open Targets team ran a webinar to help you get started with the API, which you can watch online.

For any more complex queries, we recommend using either:

• The Google BigQuery instance – open-targets-prod – which supports SQL-like queries

• The data downloads, to explore specific datasets and integrate them into your own pipelines. Archives are available through FTP

For further information:

• Visit the Open Targets Platform documentation, including our data access documentation with sample scripts
• Join the Open Targets Community for FAQs, help and sample queries
• Take a look at the source code on GitHub