# Open Targets Genetics v8 now live!
**URL:** https://community.opentargets.org/t/open-targets-genetics-v8-now-live/803
**Category:** Releases
**Tags:** genetics-portal
**Created:** [13 October 2022 10:16 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/open-targets-genetics-v8-now-live/803 "2022-10-13T10:16:07Z")
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### Author:  [@hcornu](https://community.opentargets.org/u/hcornu)
#### Post date: [13 October 2022 10:16 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/open-targets-genetics-v8-now-live/803/1 "2022-10-13T10:16:07Z")
The latest update to Open Targets Genetics — version 8 — has been released! 🎉
**Key highlights for this release include:**
- The integration of sQTLs from GTEx
- An update to GWAS Catalog studies and FinnGen R6
- The implementation of a Forest plot in the variant page
- The creation of a new API page
Full details available in [the accompanying blog post](https://blog.opentargets.org/open-targets-genetics-version-8).
**Version 8 — key numbers**
With this release, Open Targets Genetics provides information on:
- **19,599 genes** , including **3,912** Unique genes with L2G score\>0.8
- **72,878,709** variants
- **6,344 trait EFOs** , across **24 therapeutic areas**
- **57,244 studies** , of which **8,894** have full summary statistics/finemapping
- **146,433** independent disease/trait-associated loci
- **3,243,242** trait/trait colocalisation tests
Happy browsing! 🧬
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### Author:  [@frahimov](https://community.opentargets.org/u/frahimov)
#### Post date: [13 October 2022 19:27 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/open-targets-genetics-v8-now-live/803/2 "2022-10-13T19:27:56Z")
Hi. Thank you for sharing the update. Have the backend tables been uploaded to Google BigQuery too?
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### Author:  [@hcornu](https://community.opentargets.org/u/hcornu)
#### Post date: [14 October 2022 08:04 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/open-targets-genetics-v8-now-live/803/3 "2022-10-14T08:04:47Z")
Hi @frahimov! Yes, BigQuery should be updated now 🙂
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### Author:  [@frahimov](https://community.opentargets.org/u/frahimov)
#### Post date: [14 October 2022 13:47 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/open-targets-genetics-v8-now-live/803/4 "2022-10-14T13:47:23Z")
These tables are in “bigquery-public-data.open\_targets\_genetics”, correct?
The “open\_targets\_genetics” directory shows last modified on "Sep 20, 2022, 2:58:00 AM UTC-5 " but individual tables inside this directory were last modified on "Apr 30, 2022, 3:54:02 PM UTC-5 ".
Also, the number of rows, 3580861, of the locus2gene table is the same as in the one I downloaded in May 2022.
Am I looking at these data in the correct place?
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### Author:  [@hcornu](https://community.opentargets.org/u/hcornu)
#### Post date: [17 October 2022 10:42 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/open-targets-genetics-v8-now-live/803/5 "2022-10-17T10:42:41Z")
Hi @frahimov!
Those tables are part of our Google BigQuery public dataset instance, and unfortunately, we don’t control when the public datasets are updated.
This data is up-to-date in our own BigQuery instance [open-targets-genetics:genetics](https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?project=open-targets-genetics&p=open-targets-genetics&d=genetics&page=dataset), if you would like to use that.
If not, we have a few other data access options that you can check out: [Data Download - Open Targets Genetics Documentation](https://genetics-docs.opentargets.org/data-access/data-download)
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### Author:  [@frahimov](https://community.opentargets.org/u/frahimov)
#### Post date: [17 October 2022 15:59 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/open-targets-genetics-v8-now-live/803/6 "2022-10-17T15:59:12Z")
Hi @hcornu, Thank you for your response. Yes, I can access the data from your BigQuery instance. That works for me.