This the BioCypher prototype for adapting Open Targets platform data. It is a work in progress.
The project uses Poetry. You can install it like this:
git clone https://github.com/biocypher/open-targets.git
cd open-targets
poetry install
Poetry will create a virtual environment according to your configuration (either
centrally or in the project folder). You can activate it by running poetry shell inside the project directory. Alternatively, you can use a different
package manager to install the dependencies listed in pyproject.toml.
Target-disease association evidence is available from the Open Targets website
at https://platform.opentargets.org/downloads. The data can be downloaded in
Parquet format, which is a columnar data format that is compatible with Spark
and other big data tools. Currently, the data have to be manually downloaded
(e.g. using the wget command supplied on the website) and placed in the
data/ot_files directory. The adapter currently supports version 23.02 of the
data. Available datasets: Target, Disease/Phenotype, Drug, Target - gene ontology, Target - mouse phenotypes and Target - Disease Evidence. CAVE:
The latter, which is the main source of target-disease interactions in the open
targets platform, is provided in two links, one for the literature evidence
(literature/evidence) and one for the full aggregated set (simply evidence).
The adapter uses the full set, so make sure to download the correct one. The
scripts directory contains a parquet_download.sh script that can be used to
download the files (make sure to execute it in the correct folder,
data/ot_files).
To transfer the columnar data to a knowledge graph, we use the adapter in
otar_biocypher/target_disease_evidence_adapter.py, which is called from the
script scripts/target_disease_script.py. This script produces a set of
BioCypher-compatible files in the biocypher-out directory. To create the
knowledge graph from these files, you can find a version of the neo4j-admin
import command for the processed data in each individual output folder, under
the file name neo4j-admin-import-call.sh, which simply needs to be executed in
the home directory of the target database. More information about the BioCypher
package can be found at https://biocypher.org.
Please note that, by default, the adapter will be in test mode, which means
that it will only process a small subset of the data. To process the full data,
you can set the test_mode parameter in the adapter to False (or remove it).
