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PharmGKB User Survey

PharmGKB is conducting a survey designed to gather user feedback to enhance our content, features and tools. Your insights are essential as PharmGKB transitions to ClinPGx this summer and we prepare our next grant application to support our ongoing project. We would be incredibly grateful for your thoughts on the

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Recent Updates to PharmGKB’s Genotype Selection Interface (GSI) Tool

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Dr. Emily Cicali on behalf of The University of Florida Health Precision Medicine Program to incorporate the information presented in the PROPTM pharmacogenetics calculator into the GSI. Users can select from a list of concomitant medications that are either strong

Save the Date for the ESHG Pharmacogenomics Course 2025

The ESHG Pharmacogenomics course will be held in Portoroz, Slovenia, June 04-06, 2025. This course aims at delivering up-to-date knowledge on pharmacogenomics to graduate and post-graduate students, researchers, clinicians, pharmacists, clinical pharmacologists, genetic counsellors, clinical and molecular geneticists in training or certified as well as employees from companies. Additional information

PharmCAT version 3.0.0 released

The PharmCAT version 3.0.0 release is now available and brings significant changes. New highlights included: * Phase Set Support - Support for phase sets in VCF (PS genotype field). * New TSV Reports - Produce focused reports on allele calls that eliminate the complexity of PharmCAT's JSON reports.

PharmGKB is the Global Core Biodata Resource (GCBR) of the week

Since June 2024, the GCBR of the Week campaign highlights a Global Core Biodata Resource via social media. We are happy to announce that this week, GCBR profiles PharmGKB on LinkedIn and X as part of their series.

UPDATE: CHANGE IN DATE for ClinPGx/CPIC/PGRN meeting

The ClinPGx/CPIC/PGRN meeting will now start on Wednesday, September 10, 2025 and end on Friday afternoon, September 12, 2025 in Missoula, Montana. (Change of start date due to airport closure for repaving of their one runway which happens every 20 years in Missoula, Montana.) We anticipate holding a

ClinGen’s Pharmacogenomics Interpretation Committee Publishes Paper in Clinical Chemistry

We are pleased to announce that ClinGen’s Pharmacogenomics Interpretation Committee (PGxIC, previously known as the Pharmacogenomics Working Group (PGxWG)) has published its first paper in the journal Clinical Chemistry! The group recently updated its name to better reflect the scope and focus of its activities in advancing pharmacogenomic interpretation

Updated PharmVar CYP1A2 Nomenclature

From Andrea Gaedigk and Pablo Zubiaur on behalf of the CYP1A2 PharmVar expert panel PharmVar now provides expert panel curated nomenclature for CYP1A2. Before Dec 16, 2024, PharmVar displayed the legacy content of the former Human Cytochrome P450 Nomenclature Database which was updated for the last time in 2007. This

FDA and AACR to host DPYD testing workshop in January 2025

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Oncology Center of Excellence and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) are hosting a one day workshop to discuss DPYD testing. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to examine the existing information and evidence surrounding DPD

GBC Open Letter Campaign: Please join us in highlighting the critical importance of enhancing biodata resource sustainability

The Global Biodata Coalition (GBC) has just launched an open letter campaign to emphasize the essential role of biodata resources in advancing research and discovery, as well as the urgent need for sustainable funding to support the global life science data infrastructure. Please add your voice to this vital cause