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Currently, data mining and statistical approaches are confined to identifying correlates in these datasets, but researchers are often interested in identifying cause-and-effect relationships. Causal discovery methods were developed to infer such cause-and-effect relationships from observational data. Though these algorithms have had demonstrated successes in several biomedical applications, they are difficult to use for non-experts. So, there is a need for web-based tools to make causal discovery methods accessible. Here, we present CausalMGM (http:\/\/causalmgm.org\/), the first web-based causal discovery tool that enables researchers to find cause-and-effect relationships from observational data. Web-based CausalMGM consists of three data analysis tools: (i) feature selection and clustering; (ii) automated identification of cause-and-effect relationships via a graphical model; and (iii) interactive visualization of the learned causal (directed) graph. 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