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KEGG Commercial Licensing
KEGG is a self-sustaining database. Without any substantial public funding, Kanehisa Laboratories continues to develop KEGG and makes the KEGG website freely available on a trust basis. Please honor the request made by Kanehisa Laboratories (see Non-academic use of KEGG) and obtain a license for any commercial use of KEGG. Specifically, please do not use the KEGG website unless you have an End User License Agreement with the web option (EULA type 2). Pathway Solutions operates the KEGG FTP site and the KEGG mirror website for commercial customers and provides the following licenses.
End User License
The terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement (EULA) and the Service provider License Agreement (SPLA) are not negotiable. By simplifying the licensing procedure, Pathway Solutions can spend more time and effort to focus on its primary role of making KEGG a sustainable project. Besides, the newly introduced EULA and SPLA are less complicated and less restrictive. The previous Business License is continued to be made available for existing customers, but please make sure that the KEGG web service including KEGG API is never used.
- For end consumers of KEGG
- Includes rights to download and use KEGG FTP data (see content) internally for business purposes (type 1 license)
- Optionally includes rights to access the KEGG mirror site (including KEGG API) for research and development purposes (type 2 license), allowing to access the main KEGG website as well
- License given to a legal entity (excluding foreign branches)
- A group license including affiliates may also be given
- For customers providing services using KEGG
- Includes rights to provide services to authorized end users (commercial end users with valid end user licenses or academic end users)
- Includes rights to download and use KEGG FTP data
- Includes rights to access and use KEGG mapping tools at the KEGG mirror website
Business License
Please use the following form to request for a license or make any other inquiry to the Licensing Department of Pathway Solutions. Direct emails are not accepted.
- Available only for renewals of existing licenses
- Includes rights to download and use KEGG FTP data
- No rights to use KEGG web service