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Target prioritisation
The Platform’s target prioritisation view provides an assessment of target-specific properties of interest when evaluating the suitability of a target for a drug discovery programme.
The Target Prioritisation view can be accessed from the target-disease associations page when searching for targets associated with a disease, and clicking on the target prioritisation factors tab.
Targets are sorted by their overall association score for the disease of interest, and users can browse a series of target annotations directly in the view.
Watch this short video, recorded on 23 April 2025, for a walkthrough of the Target Prioritisation view:
Target Prioritisation factors belong to one of four categories: Precedence, Tractability, Doability, and Safety.
Watch this short video, recorded in January 2024, for a more in depth explanation of the types of data included in each category: