As one of Open Targets flagship informatics products, the team that maintains the Open Targets Platform is committed to building open source tools and supporting open access research.
If you use our code and/or our data, please cite our latest publication.
Open Targets Platform is marked with CC0 1.0. This dedicates the data to the public domain, allowing downstream users to consume the data without restriction.
The Platform also conforms to the EBI long-term data preservation policies.
Please contact us on the Open Targets Community if you have questions about our licence or using our data and codebases.
The codebases that power the Platform - including our pipelines, GraphQL API, and React UI - are all open source and licensed under the APACHE LICENSE, VERSION 2.0.
You can find all of our code repositories on GitHub at https://github.com/opentargets.
If you are interested in knowing more about our data sources and their licensing status, please see this list below:
| Data source | Licence |
|---|---|
| Cancer Gene Census | Commercial use for Open Targets |
| Cancer Genome Interpreter | CC-BY 4.0 |
| ChEMBL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| ClinGen | CC0 1.0 |
| ClinVar (via EVA) | EMBL-EBI terms of use |
| EFO | Apache 2.0 |
| Ensembl | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Europe PMC | CC-BY, CC-BY-NC or CC0 license or open access (depending on publication licenses) |
| Expression Atlas | CC-BY 4.0 |
| FAERS | CC0 1.0 |
| Gene Ontology | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Gene Signature | Apache 2.0 |
| Gene2Phenotype | EMBL-EBI terms of use |
| Genomics England PanelApp | Commercial use for Open Targets |
| gnomAD | CC0 1.0 |
| GTEx | CC-BY 4.0 |
| HeCaTos | CC-BY 4.0 |
| HPO | CC0 1.0 |
| Human Protein Atlas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Intact | EMBL-EBI terms of use |
| IntOGen | CC0 1.0 |
| MGI | CC-BY 4.0 |
| MONDO | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Orphanet | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Open Targets Genetics | EMBL-EBI terms of use |
| PhenoDigm | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Probes and Drugs | CC-BY 4.0 |
| PROGENy | Apache 2.0 |
| Project Score | Commercial use for Open Targets |
| Reactome | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Sequence Ontology | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Signor (via Intact) | EMBL-EBI terms of use |
| SLAPenrich | MIT terms of use |
| String DB | CC-BY 4.0 |
| TEP | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Tox21 | CC0 1.0 |
| UniProt | CC-BY 4.0 |