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CPIC grant awarded

The co-PIs of the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC), Drs. Mary Relling of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (SJCRH) and Teri Klein of Stanford University, will receive $5 million over the next 5 years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue and expand the project. CPIC

Changes to the PharmGKB data licensing, downloads and user accounts

PharmGKB is changing its licensing policy in order to simplify access to files containing annotations and relationships. All of PharmGKB, including these files, are now licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Users who download or use PharmGKB annotations, knowledge, files, images or screen shots agree to

New PharmVar Downloads

PharmVar is delighted to announce a new feature that just went live! Variants of genes in the PharmVar database can now be downloaded in sequence (FASTA and VCF) and table (TSV) formats. Options include to the download variants of interest, all variants of a gene or the entire PharmVar database.

NIH Requests Input on Draft Strategic Plan for Data Science

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is drafting a Strategic Plan for Data Science and is requesting feedback from the community. The amount of data in the biomedical field continues to grow exponentially, leading to "Big Data" and the increasing role of data science to process and analyze

2018 Precision Medicine Conference

UF Precision Medicine Conference is focused on implementing PGx and genomic medicine, happening March 2018 in Orlando, Florida. See the website for registration and more information.

Welcome to the new PharmGKB website!

We have just launched our new and improved user interface for PharmGKB! The new website offers benefits such as a display that works on mobile and small screen devices, improved searching and filtering capabilities and faster page load speeds. While the look of PharmGKB has changed, all the content that

Congratulations to Dr. Teri Klein!

PharmGKB is pleased to announce that the Stanford Provost has approved Dr. Teri Klein’s appointment as a Professor of Biomedical Data Science! This appointment is effective March 1 and represents a great acknowledgement of Teri’s academic contributions and leadership in data science and pharmacogenomics. Teri and Russ Altman

CPIC Guideline Summary Videos Available on PharmGKB

A new resource is available on PharmGKB to help researchers and clinicians more easily and quickly understand CPIC recommendations and how to find supporting information on the PharmGKB website. Short ~5 minute videos describe the role of the gene(s) and the impact of genetic variation on drug response, provide

Ivacaftor pathway, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics published in Pharmacogenetics and Genomics

The PharmGKB summary of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of ivacaftor has been published in Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. Ivacaftor is approved for use in patients who carry particular variants in the CFTR gene. By repotentiating the CFTR ion channel, ivacaftor targets the underlying cause of some forms of cystic fibrosis. Ivacaftor

NIH Request for Information: Metrics to Assess Value of Biomedical Digital Repositories

NIH has issued a Request for Information to gather input about metrics to assess the impact and value of biomedical digital data repositories, including deposition repositories and knowledgebases. NIH is interested in collecting information about the usage, quality of data, quality of service and other aspects of existing repositories. Community