Recognising the need to deliver a best-in-class user experience, we commenced a two-year project to redesign the Open Targets Platform and its technical infrastructure. The project emerged from user feedback that identified new requirements to streamline the overall user journey, enhance entity annotations, and support the exploration of different therapeutic hypotheses. External contributors also require a more amenable codebase to expand the current functionalities on their own private instances. Further, our web analytics pointed to increasing interest in specific sections, including target tractability and safety. Overall, a modern technical infrastructure combined with a fresh new interface will ensure the Platform can continue to adapt to more complex data and generate further unique insights in the drug discovery area.
