# Platform FAQs

**URL:** https://community.opentargets.org/c/frequently-asked-questions/ot-platform-faqs/28.md

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## [About the Platform FAQs category](https://community.opentargets.org/t/about-the-platform-faqs-category/51)

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**Author:** [@community\_manager](https://community.opentargets.org/u/community_manager)\
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FAQs specific to the Open Targets Platform. Note, this category is mainly intended for use by the Open Targets team.

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## [How is the OT Genetics score listed in the OT Platform calculated?](https://community.opentargets.org/t/how-is-the-ot-genetics-score-listed-in-the-ot-platform-calculated/1399)

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**Author:** [@jmaderoperez](https://community.opentargets.org/u/jmaderoperez)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [15 April 2024 10:51 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/how-is-the-ot-genetics-score-listed-in-the-ot-platform-calculated/1399 "2024-04-15T10:51:03Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m trying to understand how the OT Genetics score listed in the OT Platform is calculated. I read several post in the community and also the following documentation: but I’m still not sure about it is c…

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## [How are associations scores calculated in the Open Targets Platform?](https://community.opentargets.org/t/how-are-associations-scores-calculated-in-the-open-targets-platform/1113)

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**Author:** [@hcornu](https://community.opentargets.org/u/hcornu)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [16 June 2023 12:28 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/how-are-associations-scores-calculated-in-the-open-targets-platform/1113 "2023-06-16T12:28:20Z")

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Following a number of user questions, we have just updated the documentation on target-disease association scoring. Here is a quick summary of how our scoring works: In the Open Targets Platform, an association is de…

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## [What happened to the batch search functionality?](https://community.opentargets.org/t/what-happened-to-the-batch-search-functionality/72)

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**Author:** [@community\_manager](https://community.opentargets.org/u/community_manager)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [18 July 2022 11:41 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/what-happened-to-the-batch-search-functionality/72 "2022-07-18T11:41:20Z")

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With the release of the next-generation Platform on 29 April 2021, we made the decision to deprecate the batch search functionality while we work on a replacement approach. We made this decision because the existing bat…

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## [Comparing targets in the Open Targets Platform](https://community.opentargets.org/t/comparing-targets-in-the-open-targets-platform/478)

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**Author:** [@SirTarget](https://community.opentargets.org/u/SirTarget)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [2 March 2022 12:12 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/comparing-targets-in-the-open-targets-platform/478 "2022-03-02T12:12:14Z")

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I was going through the 2019 Open Target Nucleic Acids paper (Carvalho-Silva et al.), and I saw mention of the following ‘Similar Target’ tool in Figure 2: Is this tool still available on the platform? Is there a par…